Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Olmo 3 32b Think

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 3 32b Think 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 24.9.
  • Olmo 3 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3 32b Think specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index58.338.1
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6814

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.0 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Coding15351318
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 32b Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
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 32b Think: 24.9 (#138)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts15271302
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 32b Think: 33.8 (#165)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Olmo 3 32b Think: 34.4 (#189)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Expert15461272
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 32b Think: —

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

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.4 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Non-English14901255
LMArena Chinese15511300
LMArena French15131291
LMArena German15041290
LMArena Russian14971255
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.4 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following15231275

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query15201296
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.2 (#188)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Text15041300
LMArena Creative Writing15061256
LMArena Multi-Turn15141289
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Olmo 3 32b Think?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Olmo 3 32b Think better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Olmo 3 32b Think share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3 32b Think has 14.

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