Model comparison

Qwen1.5-14B vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.1

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-4B leads 33.0 to 29.3.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3-4B specifications
Qwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.131.5
Released2024-02-042025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked176

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 32.5 (#259), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding1138—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 20.5 (#217), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1113—

Math Qwen1.5-14B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 29.9 (#214), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1125—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Qwen1.5-14B: 29.3 (#230), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1094—
MMLU68.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 30.8 (#257), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1095—
LMArena Chinese1147—
LMArena French1115—
LMArena German1043—
LMArena Japanese1019—
LMArena Russian1046—
LMArena Spanish1085—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 57.1 (#266), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1102—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#252), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1113—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#270), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1128—
LMArena Creative Writing1091—
LMArena Multi-Turn1110—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-14B better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-14B and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-14B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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