Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen1.5-14B

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 68.1 to 33.6.
  • Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.532.7
Released2025-11-012024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6917

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding15041138
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Qwen1.5-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14761113
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math14631125
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert14871094
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
MMLU—68.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Qwen1.5-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English14381095
LMArena Chinese14701147
LMArena French14711116
LMArena German14491043
LMArena Japanese14161019
LMArena Russian14471046
LMArena Spanish14581085
LMArena Korean1424—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14781102

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query14801113
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text14511128
LMArena Creative Writing14451091
LMArena Multi-Turn14661110
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-14B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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