# Grok 3 vs Qwen3 Max

> Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 Max in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Max leads 22.0 to 13.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 73.3% for Qwen3 Max.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 43.5 |
| Rank | 150 | 82 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1456 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 370.45 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
- Qwen3 Max: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 72.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1448 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 142.41 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 82.1% |
| LMCA | — | 28.3% |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1447 |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 97.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 72.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1457 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1479 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1450 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1463 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1397 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1463 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1420 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1439 |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1446 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (41.5 vs 42.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3 Max share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.