Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
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Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 36.3 to 22.1.
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1347 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1322 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1305 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1308 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1275 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1328 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1282 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1268 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
Instruction Following Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1299 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1312 |
Writing & Preference Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1311 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1264 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1309 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.