Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs Olmo 3 32b Think

DeepSeek-V3 and Olmo 3 32b Think score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 38.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 3 32b Think in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 57.4 to 49.1.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and Olmo 3 32b Think specifications
DeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
ProviderDeepSeekAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index39.538.7
Released2024-12-26—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6014

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.6 (#172)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Coding13681319
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
SciCode35.8%—
WeirdML36.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct50%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, Olmo 3 32b Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning Olmo 3 32b Think leads

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Olmo 3 32b Think: 25.9 (#140)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts13651302
SimpleBench27.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94—
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag88.9%—
LiveBench66.9%—
PIQA84.7%—
WinoGrande85.2%—

Math Olmo 3 32b Think leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Olmo 3 32b Think: 36.5 (#165)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Math13731316
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
MATH Level 575.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Olmo 3 32b Think: 35.0 (#190)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Expert13511273
GPQA Diamond67.6%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%—
MMLU87.2%—
TriviaQA82.9%—

Multilingual DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.2 (#210)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Non-English13581255
LMArena Chinese13911300
LMArena French13851291
LMArena German13741290
LMArena Russian13731254
LMArena Japanese1333—
LMArena Korean1319—
LMArena Spanish1358—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.2 (#198)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following13451275
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—

Long Context Olmo 3 32b Think leads

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#182)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query13521296
Fiction.LiveBench50%—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.1 (#193)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Text13751300
LMArena Creative Writing13641256
LMArena Multi-Turn13891290
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1472—
WildBench83%—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Olmo 3 32b Think?

DeepSeek-V3 and Olmo 3 32b Think score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 38.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or Olmo 3 32b Think better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Olmo 3 32b Think share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3 32b Think has 14.

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