Model comparison

Qwen1.5-14B vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 29.8.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3 14B specifications
Qwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.735.5
Released2024-02-042025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1712

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding1138—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1113—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1125—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1094—
MMLU68.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1095—
LMArena Chinese1147—
LMArena French1116—
LMArena German1043—
LMArena Japanese1019—
LMArena Russian1046—
LMArena Spanish1085—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1102—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1113—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1128—
LMArena Creative Writing1091—
LMArena Multi-Turn1110—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-14B better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen1.5-14B or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-14B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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