Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3 Max

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 Max in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 41.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 94.4% for Grok 4 and 66.7% for Qwen3 Max.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3 Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.143.7
Released2025-07-092025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked4833

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14081456
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%72.5%
Chess Puzzles28%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091448
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44142.38
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%73.3%
LMArena Math14221446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond87%72.6%
LMArena Expert14151455
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14031429
LMArena Chinese14271478
LMArena French14181449
LMArena German14291463
LMArena Japanese13941397
LMArena Korean13771399
LMArena Russian14101428
LMArena Spanish14201462

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following13871419
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query14091438
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text14111439
LMArena Creative Writing13971402
LMArena Multi-Turn14161446
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3 Max?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3 Max share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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