# Grok-3 mini vs Qwen3 32B

> Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-mini-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 32B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-3 mini leads 78.7 to 69.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 130 | 166 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 49.3% | 40% |
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | 1358 |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 42.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok-3 mini: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 54.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1374 | 1335 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.35 | 138.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 16.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |

## Math

- Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1386 | 1399 |
| Omni-MATH | 31.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 90.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 65.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1395 | 1362 |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1352 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1387 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1352 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1357 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1343 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1336 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1379 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1356 | 1305 |
| IFEval | 95.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1372 | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1370 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1342 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1355 | 1331 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| WildBench | 65.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen3 32B?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen3 32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.