Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.035.5
Released2024-02-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked3012

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
LMArena Coding1223—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
DTBench53.6%64%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7138.23
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1197—
LMCA—18.2%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%66.4%
LMArena Math1213—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond40.6%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1189—
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1218—
LMArena Creative Writing1186—
LMArena Multi-Turn1227—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3 14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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