Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 66.5 to 25.8.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index44.130.3
Released2025-09-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked7310

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding14891016
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 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b 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 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1462993
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 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math14491018
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

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

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1425977
LMArena Chinese14591014
LMArena Russian1437947
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 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1459978
IFEval85%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text14391032
LMArena Creative Writing1442990
LMArena Multi-Turn14651007
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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