Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #37 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 leads 56.5 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 79.2% for GPT-5 and 28.7% 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 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
GPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderOpenAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index50.932.2
Released2025-08-07—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6916

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.7 (#39), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.6 (#222)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14361210
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1417—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.0 (#53), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#55), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 22.6 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14151208
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 54.6 (#36), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 24.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
Omni-MATH64.7%16.1%
LMArena Math14061208
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.5 (#37), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.2 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
MMLU-Pro86.3%41.4%
GPQA (HELM)79.2%28.7%
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
LMArena Expert1420—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.1 (#12), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.5 (#105), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.0 (#243)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13971160
LMArena Chinese14231192
LMArena Russian14061187
LMArena French1409—
LMArena German1415—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1361—
LMArena Spanish1398—

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 74.0 (#107), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.8 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
IFEval87.5%78%
LMArena Instruction Following13881186

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#229)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13991194
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.5 (#63), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.3 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text14061218
LMArena Creative Writing13651199
WildBench85.7%73.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn14261221
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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