Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
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.
5 months newer
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Context window and performance specifications
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