Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen Plus

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

47.8

Rank #49 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

36.7

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen Plus in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.7 to 27.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen Plus
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index47.836.7
Released2025-07-092024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4820

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 49.9 (#44), Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Coding14081328
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.1 (#62), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.9 (#59), Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091317
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
DTBench—81.1%
LMCA—24%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.46—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 46.5 (#58), Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%17.8%
LMArena Math14221326
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%1.7%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.7 (#50), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
GPQA Diamond87%48.1%
LMArena Expert14171328
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.1 (#89), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 52.0 (#98), Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Non-English14031310
LMArena Chinese14281347
LMArena Japanese13961251
LMArena Russian14091323
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Korean1376—
LMArena Spanish1419—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.4 (#4), Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13871303
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query14091325
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.7 (#111), Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen Plus
LMArena Text14121326
LMArena Creative Writing13971293
LMArena Multi-Turn14161336
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen Plus?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen Plus share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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