DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B vs QwQ 32B Preview
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Wins 4 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
QwQ 32B Preview is the stronger all-rounder.DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B is cheaper.
Scores updated · 18 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 76% 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 QwQ 32B Preview pulls 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 18 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwQ 32B Preview
- SciCodeQwQ 32B Preview by 11.923.935.8+11.9
- LiveCodeBench v6QwQ 32B Preview by 7.231.939.1+7.2
ReasoningQwQ 32B Preview
- GPQA DiamondQwQ 32B Preview by 10.948.459.3+10.9
- Humanity's Last ExamQwQ 32B Preview by 3.34.17.3+3.3
Following instructionsQwQ 32B Preview
- IFBenchQwQ 32B Preview by 16.722.138.8+16.7
Other results12 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.
- AIME 2024DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 19.769.750+19.7
- MMLU-ProDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 16.868.852+16.8
- Codeforces (Rating)DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 165 rating points14811316+165 rating
- AIME 2025DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 15.949.233.3+15.9
- DROP (3-shot F1)DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 14.385.571.2+14.3
- HMMT Feb. 2025DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 13.431.718.3+13.4
- IFEvalQwQ 32B Preview by 5.678.383.9+5.6
- MATH-500 (EM)DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 3.393.990.6+3.3
- MATH500 (Pass@1)DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 3.393.990.6+3.3
- LiveCodeBenchDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B by 3.153.150+3.1
- SuperGPQAQwQ 32B Preview by 340.643.6+3
- AA IntelligenceQwQ 32B Preview by 1.77.89.5+1.7
Questions people ask
Which is better, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B or QwQ 32B Preview?
QwQ 32B Preview wins all four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B wins none, but costs 76% less.
Which is better for coding?
QwQ 32B Preview. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; QwQ 32B Preview costs $0.66 and $1.00. That makes DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B about 76% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 18 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 12 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.