# Grok-3 mini vs Qwen3.5-Flash

> Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-mini-vs-qwen3-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 32.9 to 13.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 42.3 |
| Rank | 130 | 105 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | 1412 |
| Aider Polyglot | 49.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1243 |
| WeirdML | 42.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 221.8 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok-3 mini: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: —

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 462.69 |

## Reasoning

- Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1374 | 1404 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.35 | 143.98 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 16.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 20% |
| DTBench | — | 82.9% |
| LMCA | — | 29.1% |

## Math

- Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 77.8% | 84.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1386 | 1407 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | 6.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 31.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 90.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 82.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1395 | 1408 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 20.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1352 | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1387 | 1446 |
| LMArena French | 1357 | 1412 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1343 | 1369 |
| LMArena Korean | 1336 | 1344 |
| LMArena Russian | 1352 | 1379 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1379 | 1399 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1356 | 1374 |
| IFEval | 95.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1372 | 1392 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

| Benchmark | Grok-3 mini | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1370 | 1397 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1342 | 1343 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1355 | 1393 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| WildBench | 65.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-3 mini better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok-3 mini or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.