Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.6

Rank #150 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.9

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.5 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 53.3% for Grok 3 and 16.4% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Grok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.632.9
Released2025-04-092024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked4031

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Aider Polyglot53.3%16.4%
LMArena Coding14321276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
WeirdML37.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14331251
Epoch Capabilities Index138.34119.41
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math13901251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
MATH Level 588.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert14201221
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English14111205
LMArena Chinese14481222
LMArena Russian14161228
LMArena French1460—
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1389—
LMArena Korean1374—
LMArena Spanish1417—

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14091223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Too close to call

Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14391251
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 3Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14261230
LMArena Creative Writing14141174
LMArena Multi-Turn14241222
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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