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-Coder-32B-Instruct is a 32-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 and trained on a large corpus spanning 92 programming languages including C, Python, Java, Rust, and domain-specific languages. The model was designed to provide competitive code generation, repair, and reasoning capabilities as an open-weight alternative for developers building code assistant tools and automated review pipelines. Its 128K context window enables whole-file and multi-file code comprehension, making it particularly suited for complex repository-level tasks.
3 months newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-11-12
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Grok 2
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Grok 2
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct