Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 Plus in 7 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 28.5 to 13.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 93.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 47.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2026-03-31 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1467 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1461 |
| SciCode | — | 40.7% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 670.15 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Qwen3.6 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,115 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1449 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 147.67 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 60.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 2.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 59.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 81.9% |
| LMCA | — | 33.1% |
Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1450 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 26.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 8.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 38.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 88.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1456 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 44.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1424 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1454 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1451 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1381 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1432 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1425 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1440 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 20.3% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1405 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1438 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (41.5 vs 40.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3.6 Plus share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.