Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3, released by xAI in February 2025, is a large language model trained on xAI's Colossus supercluster with substantially increased compute over previous generations. It features a 1M token context window, RL-enhanced Think mode for extended reasoning, and demonstrated strong results on mathematics, coding, and scientific benchmarks. Grok 3 targets complex reasoning, real-time information tasks via X platform integration, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
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
xAI
2025-02-17
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 3
xAI
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Grok 3
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Grok 3
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct