Model comparison

GPT-3.5-turbo vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.2

Rank #350 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 2 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 30.2 to 6.3.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-3.5-turbo and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
GPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderOpenAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index23.230.3
Released2023-03-01—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window16K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked4410

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 7b Instruct leads

GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding11361016
WeirdML3.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete50.6%—
HumanEval+70.7%—
MBPP+69.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
METR Time Horizons21.5%—

Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads

GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1108993
Chess Puzzles0%—
Mystery Game Puzzles3%—
DTBench48.5%—
LMCA9.7%—
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard61.6%—
CommonsenseQA 2.057%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.55—
ForecastBench50.4—
WinoGrande81.6%—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math11421018
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.2%—
MATH Level 515.9%—
GSM8K57.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond28%—
LMArena Expert1070—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.4%—
BoolQ87%—
MMLU71.4%—
OpenBookQA86%—
TriviaQA85.8%—

Multilingual GPT-3.5-turbo leads

GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1108977
LMArena Chinese10751014
LMArena Russian1123947
LMArena French1118—
LMArena German1090—
LMArena Japanese1043—
LMArena Korean1019—
LMArena Spanish1121—

Instruction Following GPT-3.5-turbo leads

GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1119978

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1121—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text11251032
LMArena Creative Writing1092990
LMArena Multi-Turn11171007
EQ-Bench Creative Writing451—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-3.5-turbo or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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