Grok 3 Mini vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

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

Grok 3 Mini has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 23 versus 21. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 74.1 against 41. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 66.2% to 42%. Qwen2.5-VL-32B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 3 Mini gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

35

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
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HumanEval
35%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

39.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
41%
Coming soon
MuSR
39%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

41

66.2%
GPQA
42%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
Coming soon
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MMLU
43%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
40%
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
38%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Qwen2.5-VL-32B

42

39.7%
AIME 2024
45%
Coming soon
AIME 2023
43%
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AIME 2025
44%
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HMMT Feb 2023
39%
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HMMT Feb 2024
41%
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
40%
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
42%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 21. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 66.2% and 42%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 41. 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-VL-32B?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 35. Qwen2.5-VL-32B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 42 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-VL-32B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 39.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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