# o1-mini vs Qwen3 14B

> Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen3-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 14B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 14B leads 18.5 to 8.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
- Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 35.5 |
| Rank | 235 | 225 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 138.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | 66.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 63.8% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | — |
| 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)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3 14B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.