Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B vs GPT-4.1 nano

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B DeepSeek

32.7

Rank #252 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B leads 36.9 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 50.6% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B and 28.9% for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index32.727.9
Released2025-01-202025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked738

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: 36.9 (#200), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
BigCodeBench Instruct38.1%—
LMArena Coding—1306
BigCodeBench Complete48.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: 19.2 (#263), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
Epoch Capabilities Index135.43129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1286
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%

Math DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: 35.5 (#184), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202550.6%28.9%
MATH Level 587.1%70%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: 24.1 (#270), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond44.7%48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English—1260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1198
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval—84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text—1285
LMArena Creative Writing—1260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B better than GPT-4.1 nano?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.9 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B and GPT-4.1 nano share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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