Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-2 mini leads with 1.1% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2 Mini was created as a more efficient variant of Grok 2, designed to provide strong capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to make Grok 2's advancements accessible to applications with tighter resource constraints, it balances performance with practical deployment needs.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 7B was developed as an efficient vision-language model, designed to provide multimodal understanding with minimal computational requirements. Built with 7 billion parameters for integrated visual and textual processing, it serves applications requiring practical vision-language capabilities with constrained resources.
5 months newer

Grok-2 mini
xAI
2024-08-13

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Grok-2 mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-2 mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Grok-2 mini

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct