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Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Grok 3 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

39.4

Rank #168 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 26.4 to 13.7.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderxAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index39.939.4
Released2025-04-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4016

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Category by category

Coding Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding14321347
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
WeirdML37.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14341322
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33—

Math Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13911305
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert14211308
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multilingual Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14101275
LMArena Chinese14481304
LMArena French14601328
LMArena German14311282
LMArena Korean13731206
LMArena Russian14161268
LMArena Spanish14171336
LMArena Japanese1387—

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14091299
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14391312
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

BenchmarkGrok 3Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text14261311
LMArena Creative Writing14141264
LMArena Multi-Turn14251309
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1186—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Grok 3 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.9 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Grok 3 or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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