# Grok 3 vs Qwen3.5-Flash

> Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-qwen3-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 33.7 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 42.5 |
| Rank | 157 | 112 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1412 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1244 |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 221.8 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 462.69 |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1403 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 143.98 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 20% |
| DTBench | — | 82.9% |
| LMCA | — | 29.1% |

## Math

- Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 84.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1407 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 6.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 0% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 82.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 10.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1407 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 20.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1446 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1412 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | 1368 |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | 1344 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1379 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1400 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1374 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1392 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1397 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1343 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1393 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |

## FAQ

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

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.