Model comparison

Llama 13b vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Llama 13b Meta

23.9

Rank #344 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 14B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 14B leads 36.7 to 20.9.

Side by side

Llama 13b and Qwen3 14B specifications
Llama 13bQwen3 14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index23.935.0
Released2023-02-242025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked2112

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding683—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index100.09138.23
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts728—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
BIG-Bench Hard37.9%—
HellaSwag79.2%—
LAMBADA75.2%—
PIQA80.1%—
WinoGrande73%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math838—
GSM8K20.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
ARC (AI2) Challenge52.7%—
BoolQ78.7%—
MMLU47.7%—
OpenBookQA56.4%—
TriviaQA77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
ScienceQA43.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English819—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following781—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3 14B
LMArena Text834—
LMArena Creative Writing794—
LMArena Multi-Turn753—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 13b better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 13b or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Qwen3 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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