Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Qwen3-4B

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.6 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.4 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 99.2% for Grok 4.6 and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6Qwen3-4B
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.931.9
Released2026-08-122025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked496

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
LMArena Coding1465—
ALE-Bench1,508—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
APEX-Agents65.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles40%4%
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1447—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44—

Math Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%52.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1423—

Knowledge Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond94%52.3%
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1467—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1480—
LMArena French1461—
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1376—
LMArena Korean1397—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1404—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1454—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1428—
LMArena Multi-Turn1425—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Qwen3-4B?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Qwen3-4B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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