# Grok 4 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-vs-qwen2-5-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 46.5 to 18.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 8.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 47.8 | 31.5 |
| Rank | 49 | 259 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $5.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 45.7% | 16% |
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1293 |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 43.6% | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | 35.8% |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1271 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.46 | 129.01 |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | 57.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | — |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 82.3% |

## Math

- Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | 33% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1245 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 94.5% |
| MMLU | — | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |

## Multimodal

- Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1211 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1428 | 1272 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1279 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1396 | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | 1376 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1409 | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1419 | 1255 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 94.9% | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1254 |

## Long Context

- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1282 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1412 | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1221 |
| WildBench | 79.7% | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1272 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4 better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4 or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.