Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3 7
Verdict
- Grok 4.5 leads on quality: 63.5 vs 61.3.
- Grok 4.5 is stronger in agents & tools, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, multimodal, reasoning.
- Qwen3 7 (max) is stronger in coding, instruction following, maths.
- Grok 4.5 is 1.3× cheaper ($3.00 vs $3.75 per 1M blended).
- Qwen3 7 (max) streams 3.3× faster (169 vs 52 tokens per second).
| Metric | Grok 4.5 | Qwen3 7 (max) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 63.5 | 61.3 |
| Agents & tools score | 58.6 | 56.0 |
| Coding score | 59.8 | 61.4 |
| Composite score | 66.2 | 56.4 |
| Human preference score | 67.2 | 57.2 |
| Knowledge score | 76.2 | 63.6 |
| Long context score | 66.2 | 66.0 |
| Multimodal score | 64.9 | – |
| Reasoning score | 69.2 | 66.8 |
| Instruction following score | – | 77.6 |
| Maths score | – | 57.4 |
| Blended price $/M | $3.00 | $3.75 |
| Output speed | 52 tok/s | 169 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 13.6 s | 16.5 s |
| Context window | 500k | 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 | 70.0% | 70.4% |
| SciCode | – | 48.8% |
| WeirdML | 46.4% | – |
| APEX-Agents | 34.2% | – |
| FrontierCode | 42.4% | – |
| ProofBench | – | 26.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 153.9 | 153.7 |
| LMArena Text | 1471 | 1474 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1495 | 1495 |
| LMArena Coding | 1523 | 1525 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | 1517 |
| LMArena Vision | 1291 | – |
| LMArena Agent | 3.9 | -3.1 |
| LiveBench | 75.8% | 73.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.2% | 83.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 68.6% | 74.2% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | 56.5% | 43.6% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | 90.8% | 85.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 73.0% | 71.8% |
| LiveBench Language | 82.8% | 79.7% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 39.1 | 29.9 |
| IFBench | – | 80.5% |
| AA-LCR | 79.3% | 79.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | 80.4% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | 25.3 | 13.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | – | 50.8% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 93.1% | 92.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 42.7% | 40.5% |
| SciCode (AA) | 55.0% | 49.5% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | – | 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 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 83.5% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3 7: questions
- Is Grok 4.5 better than Qwen3 7?
- Grok 4.5 leads on quality: 63.5 vs 61.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Grok 4.5 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Grok 4.5 better than Qwen3 7 for coding?
- Qwen3 7 scores higher in coding (61 vs 60 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Grok 4.5 better than Qwen3 7 for agentic tasks?
- Grok 4.5 scores higher in agentic tasks (59 vs 56 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4.5 or Qwen3 7?
- Grok 4.5 is cheaper: $3.00 against $3.75 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, Grok 4.5 or Qwen3 7?
- Qwen3 7 streams faster: 169 against 52 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Qwen3 7 accepts more context: 1M against 500k tokens.