# Qwen Plus vs Qwen3 14B

> Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen-plus-vs-qwen3-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Plus scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 14B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 37.0 to 22.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 17.8% for Qwen Plus and 66.4% for Qwen3 14B.
- Both cost about the same: $0.40 input and $1.20 output per million tokens.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.7 | 35.0 |
| Rank | 204 | 222 |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | $1.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)
- Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1328 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen Plus: —
- Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |

## Reasoning

- Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)
- Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3% | 49.1% |
| DTBench | 81.1% | 64% |
| LMCA | 24% | 18.2% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1317 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |

## Math

- Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)
- Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 17.8% | 66.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1326 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)
- Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1% | 63.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1328 | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1310 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1251 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1323 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1303 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)
- Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1325 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)
- Qwen3 14B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1326 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1336 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus or Qwen3 14B?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3 14B lists at $0.35 and $1.40.

### Is Qwen Plus or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen3 14B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.