Model comparison
GPT-5 Mini vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Mini leads 45.6 to 19.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 72.2% for GPT-5 Mini and 16.1% for Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct.
- Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 41.8 | 32.7 |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1406 | 1210 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 64.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 59.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 39.7% | — |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 52.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 799.77 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.38 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 34.8% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 55.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -31.18 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1380 | 1208 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 54.3% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 30% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 8.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 10% | — |
| DTBench | 80.5% | — |
| LMCA | 34.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61 | — |
Math GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 72.2% | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1378 | 1208 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 46.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 12.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.8% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 27.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 6.3% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | 41.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 75.6% | 28.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 75% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 19.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1379 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1202 | — |
| VPCT | 40.2% | — |
Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1363 | 1160 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1385 | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | 1362 | 1187 |
| LMArena French | 1386 | — |
| LMArena German | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1355 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 92.7% | 78% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1357 | 1186 |
Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1355 | 1194 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads
GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1373 | 1218 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1325 | 1199 |
| WildBench | 85.5% | 73.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1363 | 1221 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1313 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5 Mini better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?
GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5 Mini or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?
GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.