# Grok 3 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.0 to 17.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 150 | 314 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 118.44 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 34.1% |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 84.9% | 73.1% |
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | — |

## FAQ

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

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.