Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3 14B
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
- Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 35.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 4% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 64% |
| LMCA | 17% | 18.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 138.23 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Qwen3 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 66.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 63.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | — |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3 14B?
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3 14B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.