Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen-14B vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen-14B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.3 to 27.6.

Side by side

Qwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.438.1
Released2023-09-242025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked1825

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Coding10711412
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen-14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10271372
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
BIG-Bench Hard55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.03—
LAMBADA71.1%—
PIQA79.9%—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math10681365
GSM8K61.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen-14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert—1338
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.4%—
BoolQ86.2%—
MMLU66.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English10411346
LMArena Chinese10771357
LMArena French—1398
LMArena German—1325
LMArena Japanese—1310
LMArena Korean—1305
LMArena Russian—1366
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10311355

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10281378

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkQwen-14BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text10511357
LMArena Creative Writing10281333
LMArena Multi-Turn10221365

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen-14B better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen-14B or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen-14B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen-14B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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