# Grok 4.1 vs Qwen3 8B

> Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-1-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 29.5 to 16.6.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 134 | 238 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
| Cybench | 39% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |

## Math

- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4.1 better than Qwen3 8B?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4.1 or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.7 vs 34.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Qwen3 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.