Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen3 14B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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 Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 18.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 40% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3 14B specifications
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.335.5
Released2025-12-172025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$3$1.40
Results tracked5912

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—31.6%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
LMArena Coding1460—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
Chess Puzzles40%4%
DTBench89.1%64%
LMCA43.1%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8138.23
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1465—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%66.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
LMArena Math1473—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond89.4%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%5.4%
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
LMArena Expert1462—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1458—
LMArena Chinese1511—
LMArena French1477—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Japanese1489—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1469—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1452—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1466—
LMArena Creative Writing1457—
LMArena Multi-Turn1471—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen3 14B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 1.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3 14B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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