Grok 3 Mini vs Qwen2.5-1M

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-1M's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 79.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 81%.

Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Qwen2.5-1M

76

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
Coming soon
Coming soon
HumanEval
76%

Multimodal & Grounded

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Qwen2.5-1M

79.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
81%
Coming soon
MuSR
79%

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Qwen2.5-1M

82

66.2%
GPQA
83%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
Coming soon
MMLU
84%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
81%
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
79%

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Multilingual

Coming soon

Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Qwen2.5-1M

84

39.7%
AIME 2024
87%
Coming soon
AIME 2023
85%
Coming soon
AIME 2025
86%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
81%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
83%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
82%
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
84%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 43 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 81%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 74.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76 versus 41.5. Grok 3 Mini stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 79.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.