# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Qwen-14B

> Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 31.2.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 31.4 |
| Rank | — | 275 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1071 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | 113.03 |
| PIQA | 83.9% | 79.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 84.4% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 66.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1028 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Qwen-14B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen-14B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.