Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Qwen3 14B

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.7

Rank #115 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 14B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.3 to 37.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 30% for GPT-5 Mini and 4% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $2 for GPT-5 Mini.
  • GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Qwen3 14B specifications
GPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.735.0
Released2025-08-072025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$2$1.40
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
SciCode39.2%31.6%
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
WeirdML52.7%—
LMArena Coding1406—
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64), Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%41%
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%49.1%
CritPt0%0%
Chess Puzzles30%4%
DTBench80.5%64%
LMCA34.2%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.51138.23
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1380—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
ForecastBench61—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%66.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH72.2%—
LMArena Math1377—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond75%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%5.4%
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
MMLU-Pro83.5%—
Confabulations13.3%—
GPQA (HELM)75.6%—
LMArena Expert1377—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1363—
LMArena Chinese1387—
LMArena French1385—
LMArena German1366—
LMArena Japanese1342—
LMArena Korean1306—
LMArena Russian1362—
LMArena Spanish1355—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
IFEval92.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1357—

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1355—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1373—
LMArena Creative Writing1325—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—
WildBench85.5%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1363—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Qwen3 14B?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Mini 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 Mini lists at $0.25 and $2.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Qwen3 14B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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