Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen-14B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 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 Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 27.6.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen-14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.031.4
Released2025-08-052023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4818

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding14791071
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14431027
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12113.03
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench62—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Math14311068
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English14051041
LMArena Chinese14271077
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14351031

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query14551028

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Text14191051
LMArena Creative Writing14121028
LMArena Multi-Turn14441022
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Qwen-14B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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