Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.3 to 36.3.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index40.839.4
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5816

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14141347
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13721322
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13751305
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert13721308
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13331275
LMArena Chinese13501304
LMArena French13631328
LMArena German13311282
LMArena Korean12911206
LMArena Russian13551268
LMArena Spanish13571336
LMArena Japanese1302—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13761299
IFEval84%—

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13981312
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13511311
LMArena Creative Writing13451264
LMArena Multi-Turn13761309
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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