Model Spend Arena2ND ED.
14B · dense · 40,960 ctx · 2026-10-03

Qwen3 14B

Runs on ≤12 GB · Hugging Face ↗

llama.cppvLLMOllamaLM Studio

AA coding index 13.8 (Artificial Analysis, frozen since 2026-09-11)

The dense 14B of the Qwen3 line — a solid mid-small generalist with a reasoning mode.

First-party test · not the AA coding index

HumanEval pass@1 63% (19/30), via local GPU (Ollama, Q4_K_M). Measured by us on this hardware, as a rough sanity check — HumanEval is a different, easier, partly-contaminated benchmark than Artificial Analysis’ composite, so it is not comparable to the coding-index column.

First-party test · not the AA coding index

BigCodeBench-Hard pass@1 23% (34/148), via official protocol · llama.cpp Q4_K_M · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU · mean of 3 runs, range 0.0 pp. The brutal counterpart to HumanEval — where HumanEval saturates near the top, BCB-Hard spreads the field, so this is the number that actually separates coding ability.

What we measured

Our own runs on this model. Each number carries how many problems it is over and how many times we ran it — these are not comparable with each other, and none of them is on the same scale as the third-party indices on the leaderboard.

testscoreoverconditions
BigCodeBench-Hard23.0%n=148 · 3 run(s)official protocol · llama.cpp Q4_K_M · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU · mean of 3 runs, range 0.
BFCL v4 non-live88.6% ± 2.0n=1150 · 1 run(s)BFCL v4 · Q4KM GGUF via llama.cpp · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU
RULER (long context)87.4 ± 6.0N=5/task · at 32K1 quantisations measured
Tool use · BFCL v4 non-live · first-party

88.6% ± 2.0 over 1150 problems

Q4KM · a shared cluster GPU · KV f16 · 1 run · spread between runs assumed at 0.25 points, not measured. This is the non-agentic half of BFCL: does the model call the right function with the right arguments. It says nothing about how it behaves over a long agentic conversation, which is a separate measurement. The score is BFCL’s own: the unweighted mean of four groups (simple, multiple, parallel, parallel multiple), where simple is itself the mean of Python, Java and JavaScript. Every group counts the same whatever its size, and irrelevance detection — which we also measure, another 240 problems — is not part of it. The margin follows that same weighting.

Long context · RULER · first-party
quantGiB4K8K32K
Q4_K_M8.487.7 ± 4.3 · N=590.8 ± 5.5 · N=587.4 ± 6.0 · N=5

All 13 RULER tasks, one request at a time, KV cache f16, bench commit c3f5e3b4, seed 42. The score is the mean of the 13; the margin is two standard deviations of the sampling, so it grows as the sample shrinks and as the score drops. Everything here clears the paper’s effective-length bar of 85.6 at every length shown.

This is not a coding score and must not be read as one. RULER asks whether the model finds and follows a fact buried in a long text. Quantising hits the two differently, so a model that still retrieves at length may already have lost the code.

First-party measurement

~25 tok/s on RTX 4060 Ti, measured by us.

Sizes on disk

Real GGUF file sizes = weight VRAM. Add the KV cache for your context (≈5 GB at 32K, fp16). Read from the GGUF header and checked against what llama.cpp actually allocates.

QuantizationSize
IQ1_S3.8 GB
IQ1_M4.1 GB
IQ2_XXS4.5 GB
IQ2_M5.4 GB
Q2_K5.8 GB
Q2_K_L5.9 GB
IQ3_XXS6.0 GB
Q2_K_XL6.1 GB
Q3_K_S6.7 GB
Q3_K_M7.3 GB
Q3_K_XL7.6 GB
IQ4_XS8.1 GB
IQ4_NL8.5 GB
Q4_08.5 GB
Q4_K_S8.6 GB
Q4_K_M9.0 GB
Q4_K_XL9.2 GB
Q4_19.4 GB
Q5_K_S10.3 GB
Q5_K_M10.5 GB
Q5_K_XL10.5 GB
Q6_K12.1 GB
Q6_K_XL13.3 GB
Q8_015.7 GB
Q8_K_XL18.8 GB
BF1629.5 GB

Config tips

~9 GB at Q4, fits 16 GB with generous context. Turn thinking off for latency- sensitive agent loops.