Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3 14B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 14B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3 14B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.635.5
Released2024-06-202025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
SciCode—31.6%
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
DTBench67.8%64%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55138.23
SimpleBench41.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
LMCA—18.2%
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%66.4%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond55.3%63.8%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen3 14B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3 14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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