Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen2.5-Max

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 41.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 12.4% for Grok 4 and 21.8% for Qwen2.5-Max.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen2.5-Max
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.140.7
Released2025-07-092025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4827

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding14081359
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
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: 36.7 (#65), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14091360
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44132.53
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
ForecastBench60.9—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math14221369
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
Confabulations12.4%21.8%
LMArena Expert14151337
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English14031352
LMArena Chinese14271382
LMArena French14181396
LMArena German14291350
LMArena Japanese13941300
LMArena Korean13771304
LMArena Russian14101353
LMArena Spanish14201377

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following13871335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query14091358
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text14111367
LMArena Creative Writing13971339
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%72.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn14161364
WildBench79.7%—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 40.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 41.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen2.5-Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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