Model comparison

o3 vs Qwen-14B

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 27.6.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o3 and Qwen-14B specifications
o3Qwen-14B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index47.531.4
Released2025-04-162023-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked6318

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

o3: 46.8 (#64), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Coding14081071
SWE-bench Verified62.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
CadEval74%—
ALE-Bench933.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3: 34.5 (#44), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning o3 leads

o3: 32.0 (#78), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14021027
Epoch Capabilities Index146.86113.03
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
SimpleBench53.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench84.8%—
LMCA39.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench62.5—
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math o3 leads

o3: 50.2 (#58), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Math14261068
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
Omni-MATH71.4%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)18.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

o3: 54.6 (#52), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
SimpleQA Verified49.4%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—
LMArena Expert1402—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 41.4 (#36), Qwen-14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual o3 leads

o3: 51.7 (#105), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Non-English14011041
LMArena Chinese14371077
LMArena French1430—
LMArena German1420—
LMArena Japanese1403—
LMArena Korean1370—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1395—

Instruction Following o3 leads

o3: 72.8 (#127), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following13681031
IFEval86.9%—

Long Context o3 leads

o3: 53.3 (#6), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query13721028
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—

Writing & Preference o3 leads

o3: 63.5 (#64), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3Qwen-14B
LMArena Text14101051
LMArena Creative Writing13591028
LMArena Multi-Turn14051022
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than Qwen-14B?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is o3 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o3 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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