Model comparison
Qwen-14B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen-14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3 8B leads 37.9 to 31.3.
Side by side
| Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.4 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2023-09-24 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1071 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen-14B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Qwen-14B leads
Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.03 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1027 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55% | — |
| LAMBADA | 71.1% | — |
| PIQA | 79.9% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1068 | — |
| GSM8K | 61.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen-14B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 84.4% | — |
| BoolQ | 86.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1041 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1077 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1031 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1028 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen-14B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1051 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1028 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1022 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen-14B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Qwen-14B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen-14B and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen-14B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.