Qwen: Qwen3 14B

qwen · Released Apr 28, 2025
DFO score #590 / 735
6.3 leaderboard score
Speed #251 / 349
59.4 tok/s
Input Price #300 / 735
$0.120 per 1M tokens
Output Price #251 / 735
$0.240 per 1M tokens
Context #544 / 735
40,960 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen3 14B is a text model with a 131K context window and support for tool use and function calling. Its measured intelligence and coding indices remain limited, and the supplied data does not include detailed reasoning, instruction-following, or coding-task results beyond those indices. The listed pricing is low, which is its clearest business advantage.

It can be considered for economical text processing or simple tool-connected workflows where the task is well defined and a human or automated check catches errors. The long context may help with larger documents, but context capacity alone does not establish dependable analysis quality. There is no vision support listed, so it is not suitable for workflows that require image understanding. Treat it as a budget-tier option for lower-risk requests, and benchmark it on actual client prompts before using it for customer-facing or consequential tasks.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Qwen3 14B provides a 131K context window, tool and function calling, and low listed prices, making it a budget option for bounded text workflows rather than demanding reasoning tasks.

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DFO Verdict

Qwen3 14B provides a 131K context window, tool and function calling, and low listed prices, making it a budget option for bounded text workflows rather than demanding reasoning tasks.

#590 of 735 overall Up 1 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 4.3 #337 of 449 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index 8.8 #160 of 199 · Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index 0.6 #159 of 181 · Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Nov 9, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 28, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.

Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.

How Qwen: Qwen3 14B compares

Qwen: Qwen3 14B ranks #337 of 449 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #160 of 199 for coding, #159 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 41K-token context window is larger than 26% of the models we list. At $0.12 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 59% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 20% of models #587
Speed: faster than 28% of models #251
Price: cheaper than 59% of models #300
Context: larger than 26% of models #544
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 14B $0.12 in $0.24 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.2 $8.00 in $40.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.12 $0.000120
Output $0.24 $0.000240

What would Qwen: Qwen3 14B cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0.562/mo Qwen: Qwen3 14B $0.0002 per request
$63.36/mo Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.2 $0.02 per request
$15.84/mo Google: Gemini 4 Argon · best value $0.0053 per request

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About Qwen: Qwen3 14B

Qwen3-14B is a dense 14.8B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both complex reasoning and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for..

Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3 14B

How much does Qwen: Qwen3 14B cost?

Qwen: Qwen3 14B costs $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 14B?

Qwen: Qwen3 14B has a context window of 40,960 tokens (41K).

Is Qwen: Qwen3 14B good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Qwen: Qwen3 14B ranks #160 of 199 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Qwen: Qwen3 14B do?

Qwen: Qwen3 14B supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Qwen: Qwen3 14B?

Qwen: Qwen3 14B is developed by Qwen and was released on April 28, 2025.

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