# Grok 4 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 44.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 28% for Grok 4 and 20% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 47.8 | 51.1 |
| Rank | 49 | 36 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1472 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | 63% |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1457 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.46 | 149.27 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | — |

## Math

- Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | 4.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | 87.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1476 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1211 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1436 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1428 | 1487 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | 1409 | 1444 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1419 | 1452 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1376 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1437 |
| IFEval | 94.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1457 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1412 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1456 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
| WildBench | 79.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 48.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.