Grok 4.3 vs Qwen3 7
Verdict
- Grok 4.3 (medium) and Qwen3 7 (max) are level on quality (60.7 vs 61.3).
- Grok 4.3 (medium) is stronger in agents & tools, composite, instruction following, knowledge, multimodal.
- Qwen3 7 (max) is stronger in long context, coding, human preference, maths, reasoning.
- Grok 4.3 (medium) is 2.4× cheaper ($1.56 vs $3.75 per 1M blended).
- Qwen3 7 (max) streams 1.5× faster (169 vs 112 tokens per second).
| Metric | Grok 4.3 (medium) | Qwen3 7 (max) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 60.7 | 61.3 |
| Agents & tools score | 60.1 | 56.0 |
| Composite score | 60.3 | 56.4 |
| Instruction following score | 80.0 | 77.6 |
| Knowledge score | 72.1 | 63.6 |
| Long context score | 64.0 | 66.0 |
| Multimodal score | 60.2 | – |
| Coding score | – | 61.4 |
| Human preference score | – | 57.2 |
| Maths score | – | 57.4 |
| Reasoning score | – | 66.8 |
| Blended price $/M | $1.56 | $3.75 |
| Output speed | 112 tok/s | 169 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 12.1 s | 16.5 s |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | – | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | – | 64.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | – | 34.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | – | 95.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | – | 77.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | – | 55.8% |
| SimpleBench | – | 70.4% |
| SciCode | – | 48.8% |
| ProofBench | – | 26.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | – | 153.7 |
| LMArena Text | – | 1474 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | – | 1495 |
| LMArena Coding | – | 1525 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1517 |
| LMArena Agent | – | -3.1 |
| LiveBench | – | 73.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | – | 83.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | – | 74.2% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | – | 43.6% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | – | 85.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | – | 71.8% |
| LiveBench Language | – | 79.7% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 24.8 | 29.9 |
| IFBench | 83.3% | 80.5% |
| AA-LCR | 75.0% | 79.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.8% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | 16.7 | 13.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 30.3% | 50.8% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 89.0% | 92.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 30.0% | 40.5% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 49.5% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 91.2% | 94.7% |
| LiveCodeBench | – | 87.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | – | 89.3% |
| IOI | – | 46.8% |
| LegalBench | – | 84.9% |
| CorpFin | – | 63.7% |
| TaxEval | – | 75.3% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | – | 61.0% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | – | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | – | 90.2% |
| Vals Index | – | 44.8 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1110 |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Grok 4.3 vs Qwen3 7: questions
- Is Grok 4.3 better than Qwen3 7?
- Grok 4.3 (medium) and Qwen3 7 (max) are level on quality (60.7 vs 61.3). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Qwen3 7 (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Grok 4.3 better than Qwen3 7 for agentic tasks?
- Grok 4.3 scores higher in agentic tasks (60 vs 56 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4.3 or Qwen3 7?
- Grok 4.3 is cheaper: $1.56 against $3.75 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, Grok 4.3 or Qwen3 7?
- Qwen3 7 streams faster: 169 against 112 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.