Model Comparison

Grok-1.5 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

Grok-1.5 outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is better at 5 benchmarks (GPQA, GSM8k, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU-Pro).

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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xAI
Grok-1.5
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Input tokens$0.30
Output tokens$0.30
Best providerTogether
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

xAI
Grok-1.5
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Input131,072 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Grok-1.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Grok-1.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Grok-1.5 was released on 2024-03-28, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is 6 months newer than Grok-1.5.

Grok-1.5

Mar 28, 2024

2.0 years ago

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.5 years ago

5mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (131,072 tokens)
Has open weights
Higher GPQA score (36.4% vs 35.9%)
Higher GSM8k score (91.6% vs 90.0%)
Higher HumanEval score (84.8% vs 74.1%)
Higher MATH score (75.5% vs 50.6%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (56.3% vs 51.0%)

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
xAI
Grok-1.5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Grok-1.5 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Grok-1.5 is made by xAI and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Grok-1.5 scores GSM8k: 90.0%, DocVQA: 85.6%, MMLU: 81.3%, HumanEval: 74.1%, MMMU: 53.6%. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.6%, MT-Bench: 87.5%, HumanEval: 84.8%, MBPP: 79.2%, MATH: 75.5%.
Grok-1.5 supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct supports 131K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Grok-1.5 is developed by xAI and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.