Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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-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
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-11-12

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3 mini
xAI
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Grok 3 mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Grok 3 mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct