Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen3.5-9B

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.7

Rank #239 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 11.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.733.8
Released2024-08-132026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked3410

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%
WeirdML22.2%—
LiveBench Coding46.4%—
LMArena Coding1287—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
DTBench65.2%71.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.48139.46
SimpleBench22.7%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning54.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1272—
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%—
LMCA—24.5%
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202511.5%61.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
LiveBench Math54.9%—
LMArena Math1283—
MATH Level 563.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond53.8%79%
Confabulations20.1%—
LMArena Expert1254—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1282—
LMArena Chinese1289—
LMArena French1318—
LMArena German1287—
LMArena Japanese1244—
LMArena Korean1237—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1281—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following69.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1270—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1276—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1305—
LMArena Creative Writing1284—
Short-Story Creative Writing63.6%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1290—
LiveBench Language45.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen3.5-9B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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