# Grok-3 mini vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-mini-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok-3 mini leads 46.3 to 17.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 130 | 314 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 49.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok-3 mini: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.35 | 118.44 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 16.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1374 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |

## Math

- Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 31.8% | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1386 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 90.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.9% | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.5% | 34.1% |
| Confabulations | 10.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1395 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |

## Multilingual

- Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1352 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena French | 1357 | — |
| LMArena German | 1350 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1343 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1336 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1352 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1379 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 95.1% | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1356 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1372 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 65.1% | 73.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1342 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1355 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.