Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen-14B vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #273 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.4

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen-14B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 28.4 to 18.7.
  • Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.838.4
Released2023-09-242026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1813

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1072—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255), Qwen3.6 Flash: 28.4 (#90)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index112.8143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1027—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
BIG-Bench Hard55%—
LAMBADA71.1%—
PIQA79.9%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224), Qwen3.6 Flash: 38.0 (#88)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1068—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K61.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen-14B: —, Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.2 (#90)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.4%—
BoolQ86.2%—
MMLU66.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1042—
LMArena Chinese1077—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1031—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1029—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1051—
LMArena Creative Writing1028—
LMArena Multi-Turn1022—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen-14B better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen-14B and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen-14B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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