qwen3-14b: benchmark scores, price and ranking

qwen3-14b from Alibaba ranks #573 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (45.6), based on 9 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
Alibaba
Type
Open-weight / local model
Open weights
Yes
Released
2025-04-28 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price
$0.080 in / $0.240 out per million tokens (via nebius, observed 2026-10-13T19:47Z)
Aggregate rank
#573 of 743 (score 45.6)

Relative to other models, qwen3-14b is strongest on Epoch ECI (#60 of 204) and weakest on CritPt (#111 of 115).

Across the 9 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, qwen3-14b is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 3.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.080 per million tokens, is lower than that of 85% of the 427 models with a listed price.

qwen3-14b benchmark results

qwen3-14b benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
Epoch ECI138#60 of 204Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
OTIS Mock AIME66.4%#87 of 189Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
Fiction.liveBench62.5%#22 of 47Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
DTBench64.0%#86 of 146Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
GPQA Diamond63.8%#162 of 275Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
Chess Puzzles4.0%#84 of 122Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
LMCA18.2%#76 of 108Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
SciCode31.6%#90 of 106Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13
CritPt0.0%#111 of 115Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13

About qwen3-14b

qwen3-14b is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Alibaba. It was released on 2025-04-28, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.080 per million input tokens and $0.240 per million output tokens, through nebius. We hold 9 benchmark results for it across 4 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where qwen3-14b stands

On our aggregate score, qwen3-14b is #573 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 45.6; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 4.4 points below the typical model. That beats 23% of the ranked field. Among the 74 ranked Alibaba models it is #60. The next one up is qwen-plus-2025-01-25 at 45.7. The next one down is qwen3-coder-next at 45.5.

qwen3-14b, benchmark by benchmark

Epoch ECI puts qwen3-14b at 138, #60 of 204. That beats 71% of the models tested, but 18 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are grok-3 (138) and QwQ-32B (138). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so qwen3-14b is 11 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

On OTIS Mock AIME, qwen3-14b reaches 66.4%. It ranks #87 of 189, ahead of 54% of the field, and 33.6 points behind Claude Fable 5.1 (max) at 100.0%. The results either side are DeepSeek-R1 (May 2025) (66.4%) and Claude Opus 4 (64.4%). It covers competition maths (AIME 2024-25 style). The board median is 57.8%, so qwen3-14b is 8.6 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

qwen3-14b manages 62.5% on Fiction.liveBench, good for #22 of 47. grok-4-0709 leads at 94.4%, 31.9 points further up, and 53% of models sit below. The results either side are GPT-4.5 Preview (Feb 2025) (63.9%) and qwen3-8b (62.1%). It covers long-context story comprehension (16k). The board median is 61.1%, so qwen3-14b is 1.4 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

qwen3-14b lands below the middle on DTBench: 64.0%, #86 of 146, with 58% of the field scoring higher. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 98.9%; the closest result above is GPT-4o (May 2024) at 64.5%. It covers dynamic tool-use benchmark. The board median is 68.8%, so qwen3-14b is 4.8 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

qwen3-14b lands below the middle on GPQA Diamond: 63.8%, #162 of 275, with 59% of the field scoring higher. GPT-6 Astra (max) leads at 95.8%; the closest result above is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) at 64.1%. It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so qwen3-14b is 8.0 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

qwen3-14b lands below the middle on Chess Puzzles: 4.0%, #84 of 122, with 68% of the field scoring higher. GPT-6 Astra (max) leads at 72.0%; the closest result above is GPT-4 (Jun 2023) at 4.0%. It covers chess tactics puzzles. The board median is 12.5%, so qwen3-14b is 8.5 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

qwen3-14b lands below the middle on LMCA: 18.2%, #76 of 108, with 69% of the field scoring higher. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 68.2%; the closest result above is o3-mini (high) at 19.0%. It covers language-model capability assessment. The board median is 29.2%, so qwen3-14b is 11.0 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

SciCode is a weak spot. qwen3-14b scores 31.6%, #90 of 106, behind 84% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Opus 5.5 (max), reaches 66.9%. It covers scientific research code. The board median is 44.3%, so qwen3-14b is 12.7 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

CritPt is a weak spot. qwen3-14b scores 0.0%, #111 of 115, behind 96% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-5.6 Sol (max), reaches 32.3%. It covers unpublished research-level physics problems. The board median is 2.9%, so qwen3-14b is 2.9 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Reasoning, maths and science: uneven, ahead of 33% of the field on average across 3 benchmarks. Its best board here is OTIS Mock AIME (#87 of 189) and its weakest is CritPt (#111 of 115). General knowledge and chat: uneven, ahead of 46% of the field on average across 4 benchmarks. Its best board here is Epoch ECI (#60 of 204) and its weakest is LMCA (#76 of 108).

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so qwen3-14b costs less than the typical listing. Models that score within 1.5 points or better and cost less: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct ($0.010, 49.5), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high) ($0.010, 48.9), Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct ($0.010, 46.5). Similar scores cost more on Qwen3-30B-A3B ($0.090) and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B ($0.090).

Release history

The Alibaba model released before it was qwen-plus-2025-04-28 on 2025-04-28, which scores 48.9. The next one was Qwen3-30B-A3B on 2025-04-28, at 44.9.

Reading these numbers

The 9 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (9). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. The leaderboard also lists 1 other reasoning-effort setting of this model, which redirect here. This page shows the highest.

qwen3-14b is also listed at 1 other reasoning-effort setting; this page shows the highest-effort row, which is the one the leaderboard keeps by default.

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