# Grok 3 vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Grok 3 leads 30.5 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 61.3% for Grok 3 and 36% for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 157 | 302 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Output $/M | — | $8.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 36% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |

## Math

- Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok 3: —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.