Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 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 knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 48.4 to 19.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 86.9% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 41.4% for Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct.
  • Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index44.132.7
Released2025-09-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked7316

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14891210
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14621208
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Omni-MATH55.3%16.1%
LMArena Math14491208
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
MMLU-Pro86.9%41.4%
GPQA (HELM)68.6%28.7%
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
LMArena Expert1482—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14251160
LMArena Chinese14591192
LMArena Russian14371187
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1427—
LMArena Japanese1390—
LMArena Korean1403—
LMArena Spanish1457—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
IFEval85%78%
LMArena Instruction Following14591186

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14761194

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text14391218
LMArena Creative Writing14421199
WildBench85.4%73.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn14651221
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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