Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen-14B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.7 to 27.8.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen-14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.330.8
Released2026-02-042023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6818

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding15351072
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271027
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36112.8
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench60—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English14901042
LMArena Chinese15511077
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following15231031

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query15201029
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen-14B
LMArena Text15041051
LMArena Creative Writing15061028
LMArena Multi-Turn15141022
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Qwen-14B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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