Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads with 23.5% 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 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Together

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct