Model comparison

Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen-14B

Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen-14B in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.9 to 52.6.

Side by side

Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen-14B specifications
Llama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.630.8
Released2025-04-052023-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.19—
Output $ / M tokens$0.65—
Results tracked5418

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Category by category

Coding Qwen-14B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318), Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Coding13021072
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21%—
Aider Polyglot15.6%—
SciCode33.1%—
WeirdML24.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct49.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.4%—
ALE-Bench172.97—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.3%—

Reasoning Qwen-14B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337), Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811027
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2112.8
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench27.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)8%—
ARC-AGI-14.4%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval0.6%—
DTBench61.9%—
LMCA15.9%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench57.5—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256), Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Math12991068
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202520.6%—
Omni-MATH42.2%—
MATH Level 573%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
GPQA Diamond67%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.7%—
MMLU-Pro81%—
Confabulations22.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—
LMArena Expert1259—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Vision1141—
GeoBench52%—
SpatialViz-Bench31.8%—

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190), Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English12691042
LMArena Chinese12771077
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1291—
LMArena Japanese1207—
LMArena Korean1203—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1293—

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140), Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12671031
IFEval90.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query12801029
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%—

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247), Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen-14B
LMArena Text12871051
LMArena Creative Writing12661028
LMArena Multi-Turn12891022
Short-Story Creative Writing62%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing860—
WildBench80%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Qwen-14B?

Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Qwen-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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