Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-2 mini leads with 1.7% higher average benchmark score. Grok-2 mini supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. 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
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
8 months newer

Grok-2 mini
xAI
2024-08-13

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Grok-2 mini

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-2 mini

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra

Grok-2 mini

Qwen3 235B A22B

Grok-2 mini

Qwen3 235B A22B
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