Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.4% for GPT-4o and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Qwen3 14B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Qwen3 14B specifications
GPT-4oQwen3 14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.635.5
Released2024-05-132025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output16K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$10$1.40
Results tracked7212

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
SciCode—31.6%
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 14B leads

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
CritPt0%0%
Chess Puzzles13%4%
DTBench64.5%64%
LMCA16.6%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97138.23
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%66.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond49.2%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%5.4%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is GPT-4o or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 14B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Qwen3 14B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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