Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 24.8.
  • Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index60.732.2
Released2026-05-28—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6516

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.6 (#222)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14911210
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 22.6 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14811208
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 24.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Math14871208
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench69%—
Omni-MATH—16.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.2 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
MMLU-Pro—41.4%
GPQA (HELM)—28.7%
LMArena Expert1501—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.0 (#243)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14501160
LMArena Chinese15091192
LMArena Russian14761187
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.8 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14761186
IFEval—78%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#229)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14821194

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.3 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text14601218
LMArena Creative Writing14531199
LMArena Multi-Turn14761221
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
WildBench—73.4%
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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