Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B and 63.8% for Qwen3 14B.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen3 14B specifications
Qwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.535.5
Released2024-02-042025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked2112

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%—
LMArena Coding1155—
BigCodeBench Complete42%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1130—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1155—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond30.7%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1126—
MMLU74.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1106—
LMArena Chinese1177—
LMArena French1101—
LMArena German1058—
LMArena Japanese1027—
LMArena Korean1008—
LMArena Russian1073—
LMArena Spanish1089—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1116—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1146—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1137—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1140—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen3 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen1.5-32B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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