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-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5-Coder family, trained on a curated corpus spanning 92 programming languages with emphasis on code generation, debugging, and fill-in-the-middle completion. Built on the Qwen2.5 architecture, it extends the base series' improvements in instruction-following and long-context handling to coding-specific tasks within a compact deployable footprint. It became popular for integration into IDE extensions, CI pipelines, and self-hosted code assistant tools.
3 months newer
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B 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 7B Instruct
Grok 3 mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Grok 3 mini
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct