Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Qwen-14B

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen-14B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 27.6.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Qwen-14B specifications
GPT-4.1Qwen-14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.931.4
Released2025-04-142023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked5218

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding13911071
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
WeirdML39%—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Qwen-14B leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts13841027
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78113.03
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench61.5—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Math13701068
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
MATH Level 583%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English13701041
LMArena Chinese13821077
LMArena French1382—
LMArena German1381—
LMArena Japanese1319—
LMArena Korean1339—
LMArena Russian1377—
LMArena Spanish1376—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following13671031
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query13851028
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Qwen-14B
LMArena Text13831051
LMArena Creative Writing13631028
LMArena Multi-Turn13981022
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Qwen-14B?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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