Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen-14B

Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen-14B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 27.6.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen-14B specifications
GPT-4oQwen-14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.631.4
Released2024-05-132023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7218

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Category by category

Coding Qwen-14B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Coding12971071
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen-14B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811027
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97113.03
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench57.7—
LAMBADA—71.1%
LiveBench55.3%—
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Math12851068
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
MMLU88.1%66.3%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English12831041
LMArena Chinese12771077
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12781031
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query12891028
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen-14B
LMArena Text13001051
LMArena Creative Writing12921028
LMArena Multi-Turn13021022
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Qwen-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.2 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen-14B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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