Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen-14B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen-14B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 53.0 to 27.8.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen-14B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.430.8
Released2024-06-202023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6018

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Coding13431072
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts13051027
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55112.8
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench60.7—
LAMBADA—71.1%
LiveBench59%—
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Math13061068
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
MMLU87.3%66.3%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1264—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English12831042
LMArena Chinese12711077
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1305—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12971031
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query13111029

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen-14B
LMArena Text12981051
LMArena Creative Writing12921028
LMArena Multi-Turn13261022
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen-14B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen-14B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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