Model Comparison

Grok-3 Mini vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Grok-3 Mini outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Grok-3 Mini 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-3 Mini
Input tokens$0.30
Output tokens$0.50
Best providerxAI
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Grok-3 Mini specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Grok-3 Mini specifies output context (8,000 tokens).

xAI
Grok-3 Mini
Input128,000 tokens
Output8,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not.

Grok-3 Mini can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Grok-3 Mini

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Grok-3 Mini is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Grok-3 Mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Grok-3 Mini was released on 2025-02-17, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Grok-3 Mini is 5 months newer than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.

Grok-3 Mini

Feb 17, 2025

1.2 years ago

5mo newer
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Grok-3 Mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-11-17, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Grok-3 Mini's training data extends to 2024-11-17, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen2.5 14B Instruct's cutoff date.

Grok-3 Mini

Nov 2024

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

xAI
Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher GPQA score (84.0% vs 45.5%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Has open weights
xAIGrok-3 Mini
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Grok-3 Mini
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Grok-3 Mini vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Grok-3 Mini significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Grok-3 Mini is made by xAI and Qwen2.5 14B 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-3 Mini scores AIME 2024: 95.8%, AIME 2025: 90.8%, GPQA: 84.0%, LiveCodeBench: 80.4%. Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores GSM8k: 94.8%, HumanEval: 83.5%, MBPP: 82.0%, MATH: 80.0%, MMLU-Redux: 80.0%.
Grok-3 Mini supports 128K tokens and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Grok-3 Mini is developed by xAI and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.