Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 36 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 78.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 80%. Grok 3 Mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
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Grok 3 Mini
41.5
Qwen2.5-72B
35.7
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Grok 3 Mini
21.7
Qwen2.5-72B
78.9
Grok 3 Mini
74.1
Qwen2.5-72B
62.7
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Grok 3 Mini
39.7
Qwen2.5-72B
83
Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 36 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 80%.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 62.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 35.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 78.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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