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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct are closely matched at 5.3 and 3.8 on the LLM Stats Score.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 5.3 and 3.8.

The models split the 4 individual benchmarks reported for both models evenly.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2024

Choose Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
5.3
#287
3.8
#293
Reasoning
5.5
#283
3.2
#290
Coding
4.4
#203
4.0
#206
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
2 of 4
2 of 4
Input price
$0.80 / M
— / M
Output price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Math
10.8#242
10.7#243
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Claude 3.5 Haiku · 16 for Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

4 shared

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 2 benchmarks (HumanEval, MMLU-Pro), while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is better at 2 benchmarks (GPQA, MATH).

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks.

Sat Sep 05 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sat Sep 05 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is 1 month newer than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.9 years ago

1mo newer
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
✓ Preferred
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 5.3 and 3.8. Claude 3.5 Haiku is made by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3.5 Haiku compare to Qwen2.5 14B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores HumanEval: 88.1%, MGSM: 85.6%, DROP: 83.1%, MATH: 69.4%, MMLU-Pro: 65.0%. Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores GSM8k: 94.8%, HumanEval: 83.5%, MBPP: 82.0%, MATH: 80.0%, MMLU-Redux: 80.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Haiku supports 200K tokens and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (5.3 vs 3.8), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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