Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 56.4 to 35.4.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index50.538.8
Released2025-11-01—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6916

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding15041346
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14761322
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math14631305
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert14881307
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14381275
LMArena Chinese14701304
LMArena French14711328
LMArena German14491283
LMArena Korean14241206
LMArena Russian14481268
LMArena Spanish14551337
LMArena Japanese1415—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14781298

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14801312
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text14511311
LMArena Creative Writing14451264
LMArena Multi-Turn14661309
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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