Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 49.6% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct offers 3.3K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Both models have similar pricing. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
5 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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