Claude Opus 4 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Wins 4 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Claude Opus 4 is the stronger all-rounder.DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 15 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the four areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B costs 100% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude Opus 4 pulls ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+59points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+31.6points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+31.2points ahead
Where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 15 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Opus 4
- SciCodeClaude Opus 4 by 15.939.823.9+15.9
- LiveCodeBench v6Claude Opus 4 by 15.547.431.9+15.5
ReasoningClaude Opus 4
- GPQA DiamondClaude Opus 4 by 31.279.648.4+31.2
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Opus 4 by 8.212.34.1+8.2
Following instructionsClaude Opus 4
- IFBenchClaude Opus 4 by 31.653.722.1+31.6
Other results9 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- HMMT Feb. 2025Claude Opus 4 by 28.36031.7+28.3
- AIME 2025Claude Opus 4 by 26.375.549.2+26.3
- AIME 2024DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 21.548.269.7+21.5
- MMLU-ProClaude Opus 4 by 17.886.668.8+17.8
- LiveCodeBenchClaude Opus 4 by 17.370.453.1+17.3
- SuperGPQAClaude Opus 4 by 15.956.540.6+15.9
- AA IntelligenceClaude Opus 4 by 12.820.67.8+12.8
- IFEvalClaude Opus 4 by 9.187.478.3+9.1
- MATH-500 (EM)tie94.493.9tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Opus 4 or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B?
Claude Opus 4 wins all four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B wins none, but costs 100% less.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Opus 4. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Opus 4 costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens; DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B costs $0.20 and $0.20. That makes DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B about 100% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 15 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 6 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 9 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.