Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 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 reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.7 to 25.4.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index58.338.8
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6816

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding15351346
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15271322
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math15171305
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert15461307
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14901275
LMArena Chinese15511304
LMArena French15131328
LMArena German15041283
LMArena Korean14651206
LMArena Russian14971268
LMArena Spanish15121337
LMArena Japanese1484—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15231298

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15201312
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text15041311
LMArena Creative Writing15061264
LMArena Multi-Turn15141309
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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