# Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-2-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 39.7 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 11.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 39.2 |
| Rank | 239 | 172 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)
- Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1334 |
| DTBench | 65.2% | 67.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | 138.51 |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | — |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |

## Math

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)
- Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1399 |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | 65.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1362 |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |

## Multilingual

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1287 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)
- Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1305 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)
- Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1331 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3 32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.