Model comparison
Qwen3 14B vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 29.6 to 18.1.
- Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 44.7 |
| Released | 2025-04 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.35 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 31.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1488 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
| DTBench | 64% | — |
| LMCA | 18.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.23 | — |
Math Too close to call
Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1473 |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 63.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1489 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1534 |
| LMArena French | — | 1483 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1472 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1467 |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.5% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1477 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3 14B better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Qwen3 14B or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.