# o1-mini vs Qwen-14B

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen-14B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1-mini leads 48.4 to 27.6.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 31.4 |
| Rank | 235 | 275 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1071 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1027 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 113.03 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1068 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1077 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | — |
| LMArena German | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | — |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1031 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1028 |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1022 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen-14B?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen-14B better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen-14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.