Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Qwen-14B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 31.3.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Qwen-14B specifications
GPT-5Qwen-14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.931.4
Released2025-08-072023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6918

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding14361071
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14161027
Epoch Capabilities Index150113.03
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench61.4—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Math14071068
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1419—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English13971041
LMArena Chinese14221077
LMArena French1410—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1409—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1399—

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following13881031
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query13991028
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Qwen-14B
LMArena Text14061051
LMArena Creative Writing13651028
LMArena Multi-Turn14261022
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Qwen-14B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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