Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Qwen3 14B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 7.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 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 GPT-5.2 leads 50.1 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 49% for GPT-5.2 and 4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.2.
  • GPT-5.2 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Qwen3 14B specifications
GPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.135.0
Released2025-12-112025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.75$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$14$1.40
Results tracked6712

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1415—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
SciCode—31.6%
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
LMArena Coding1447—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24), Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%41%
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%49.1%
Chess Puzzles49%4%
DTBench90.9%64%
LMCA43.9%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45138.23
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1445—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
ForecastBench60.1—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond91.4%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%5.4%
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
LMArena Expert1445—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1460—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1421—
LMArena Korean1390—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1417—

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
CL-bench18.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Qwen3 14B
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1402—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LMArena Multi-Turn1458—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Qwen3 14B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 14B costs 7.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.2 or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 lists at $1.75 and $14.

Is GPT-5.2 or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.2 does, with 400K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Qwen3 14B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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