Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 30.2 to 10.8.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
GPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderOpenAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index29.130.3
Released2023-03-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3810

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding12541016
WeirdML12.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1241993
Chess Puzzles4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA17.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89—
ForecastBench57.8—
HellaSwag95.3%—
WinoGrande87.5%—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math12691018
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
MATH Level 523%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond35.7%—
LMArena Expert1211—
MMLU86.4%—
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1246977
LMArena Chinese12421014
LMArena Russian1251947
LMArena French1283—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1241978

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1244—

Writing & Preference GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text12631032
LMArena Creative Writing1244990
LMArena Multi-Turn12571007
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4 or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

GPT-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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