Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Grok 4.3
79
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
65
Verified leaderboard positions: Grok 4.3 unranked · Qwen3.5-122B-A10B #8
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Coding
+24.7 difference
Knowledge
+27.7 difference
Multimodal
+0.9 difference
Inst. Following
+12.1 difference
Grok 4.3
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
$1.25 / $2.5
$0 / $0
209 t/s
N/A
12.36s
N/A
1M
262K
Pick Grok 4.3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Grok 4.3 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 79 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Grok 4.3's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 78.1 against 77.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 90.1% to 86.6%. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Grok 4.3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.25 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Grok 4.3 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.
Grok 4.3 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 79 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 90.1% and 86.6%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 53.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 47.3. Grok 4.3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Grok 4.3 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 77.2. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 81.3. Grok 4.3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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