# Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen-14B

> Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-4-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.4 to 27.8.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 93 | 273 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $15 | — |
| Output $/M | $75 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55)
- Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1072 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104)
- Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1027 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | 112.8 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| DTBench | 81.6% | — |
| LMCA | 37.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |

## Math

- Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80)
- Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1068 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1384 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | — |
| GeoBench | 49% | — |
| VPCT | 38% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133)
- Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1077 |
| LMArena French | 1370 | — |
| LMArena German | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1332 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1318 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1388 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26)
- Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1031 |
| IFEval | 91.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167)
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1029 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85)
- Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1386 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1022 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | — |
| WildBench | 85.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen-14B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.