Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 45.2.

Side by side

Grok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.145.3
Released2025-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4817

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding14081487
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
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), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts14091483
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math14221474
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert14151489
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14031465
LMArena Chinese14271534
LMArena French14181484
LMArena German14291487
LMArena Japanese13941495
LMArena Korean13771438
LMArena Russian14101471
LMArena Spanish14201470

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13871467
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14091476
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

BenchmarkGrok 4Qwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text14111470
LMArena Creative Writing13971464
LMArena Multi-Turn14161478
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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