Model comparison

Qwen1.5 4b Chat vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5 4b Chat Alibaba (Qwen)

28.8

Rank #322 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 14B leads 39.3 to 26.7.

Side by side

Qwen1.5 4b Chat and Qwen3 14B specifications
Qwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.835.5
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1312

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 29.1 (#308), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding999—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Too close to call

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 18.5 (#279), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts976—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.4 (#234), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1026—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 26.7 (#255), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert980—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 24.1 (#290), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English979—
LMArena Chinese1024—
LMArena German902—
LMArena Russian952—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 49.0 (#300), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following978—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.1 (#290), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query988—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 23.8 (#309), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5 4b ChatQwen3 14B
LMArena Text997—
LMArena Creative Writing969—
LMArena Multi-Turn977—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5 4b Chat better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen1.5 4b Chat or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5 4b Chat has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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