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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
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Winner summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B wins on 3/6 benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · reasoning.
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Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
#62 by perf·no signal
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
#133 by perf·no signal
Best value
Pricing unknown
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
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Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
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Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQwen2.5 14B Instruct
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads by +7.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
48.6
GPQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +7.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
18.3
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
10.5
IFEval
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads by +37.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
43.8
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
81.4
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +1.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
57.0
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
55.3
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads by +2.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
43.2
MUSR
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +18.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
28.7
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
10.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 40.7 | 48.6 |
GPQA | 18.3 | 10.5 |
IFEval | 43.8 | 81.4 |
MATH Level 5 | 57.0 | 55.3 |
MMLU-PRO | 40.7 | 43.2 |
MUSR | 28.7 | 10.6 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | — | — | — | — |