Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 50.2.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index43.139.4
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5616

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14421347
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13991322
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13901305
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert13861308
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13621275
LMArena Chinese13861304
LMArena French13721328
LMArena German13911282
LMArena Korean13211206
LMArena Russian13921268
LMArena Spanish13891336
LMArena Japanese1331—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14061299
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14221312
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13771311
LMArena Creative Writing13871264
LMArena Multi-Turn13961309
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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