Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5 series trained on 18 trillion tokens with improved code, math, and multilingual coverage. The model delivers significantly stronger instruction-following, structured output generation, and long-context handling compared to its predecessor, supporting 128K context windows in a compact form factor. It became widely adopted as a foundation for fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, and on-device deployment due to its balance of capability and efficiency.
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Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Grok 2
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Grok 2
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct