Model Comparison

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Input tokens$0.89
Output tokens$0.89
Best providerLambda
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

390.2B diff

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct has 390.2B more parameters than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, making it 2636.5% larger.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
14.8Bparameters
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
405.0Bparameters
14.8B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
405.0B
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Llama 3.1 405B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Llama 3.1 405B Instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is licensed under MIT, while Llama 3.1 405B Instruct uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

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

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

MIT

Open weights

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B was released on 2025-01-20, while Llama 3.1 405B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is 6 months newer than Llama 3.1 405B Instruct.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Jan 20, 2025

1.2 years ago

6mo newer
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.7 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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Key Takeaways

Higher GPQA score (59.1% vs 50.7%)
Larger context window (128,000 tokens)

Detailed Comparison

FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is made by DeepSeek and Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is made by Meta. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B scores MATH-500: 93.9%, AIME 2024: 80.0%, GPQA: 59.1%, LiveCodeBench: 53.1%. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct scores ARC-C: 96.9%, GSM8k: 96.8%, API-Bank: 92.0%, Multilingual MGSM (CoT): 91.6%, HumanEval: 89.0%.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B supports an unknown number of tokens and Llama 3.1 405B Instruct supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (MIT vs Llama 3.1 Community License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is developed by DeepSeek and Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is developed by Meta.