Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen-14B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 28.7.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen-14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index60.730.8
Released2026-05-282023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6518

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding14911072
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14), Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14811027
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3112.8
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench59.9—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English14501042
LMArena Chinese15091077
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1476—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14761031

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query14821029

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen-14B
LMArena Text14601051
LMArena Creative Writing14531028
LMArena Multi-Turn14761022
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen-14B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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