Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 4 Heavy was created as a larger, more capable variant of Grok 4, designed to provide maximum reasoning depth and analytical capability. Built for the most demanding applications requiring sophisticated problem-solving, it represents xAI's flagship offering in the fourth generation.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
10 months newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-4 Heavy

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Grok-4 Heavy

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct