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
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
5 months newer

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-4 Heavy

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Grok-4 Heavy

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct