Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads with 13.6% higher average benchmark score. Overall, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B was developed as a mid-sized distilled variant based on Qwen, designed to balance reasoning capability with practical deployment considerations. Built to provide strong analytical performance while remaining accessible, it serves applications requiring reliable reasoning without flagship-scale resources.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 14B was developed as a mid-sized instruction-tuned model, designed to balance capability and efficiency for diverse language tasks. Built with 14 billion parameters, it provides strong performance for applications requiring reliable instruction-following without the resource demands of larger models.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct