Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3 14B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 9.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 14B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 46.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 18.2% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.135.0
Released2026-02-172025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$15$1.40
Results tracked5712

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
SciCode46.8%31.6%
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
WeirdML66.1%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
CritPt3.1%0%
Chess Puzzles13%4%
DTBench89.9%64%
LMCA46.5%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25138.23
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%66.4%
ProofBench45%—
LMArena Math1463—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond87.4%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%5.4%
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
LMArena Expert1500—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1491—
LMArena French1465—
LMArena German1428—
LMArena Japanese1419—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1465—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3 14B
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—
LMArena Multi-Turn1464—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Qwen3 14B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 9.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3 14B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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