Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)

Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Qwen3 14B (Reasoning). A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)On the frontier
Intelligence
53.60
Total cost
$2172
AlibabaQwen3 14B (Reasoning)Not ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
6.40
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricClaude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)53.66.4−88.1% Qwen3 14B (Reasoning) is 88.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$2,172.43Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)33.81s31.78s−6.0% Qwen3 14B (Reasoning) is 6.0% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$4.00 / $20.0$0.12 / $0.24
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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