Model comparison

Llama 3-8B vs Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-8B scores higher in 0 categories and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads 26.8 to 8.8.

Side by side

Llama 3-8B and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct specifications
Llama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
ProviderMetaAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index25.532.7
Released2024-04-18—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
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Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3416

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding11521210
BigCodeBench Instruct31.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete36.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Reasoning Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11331208
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench43.9%—
Adversarial NLI57.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index116.45—
ForecastBench58.6—
WinoGrande75.7%—

Math Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Math11511208
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%—
Omni-MATH—16.1%
MATH Level 56.1%—

Knowledge Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
GPQA Diamond26.1%—
MMLU-Pro—41.4%
GPQA (HELM)—28.7%
LMArena Expert1113—
ARC (AI2) Challenge82.8%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA82.6%—
TriviaQA67.7%—

Multilingual Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English10981160
LMArena Chinese10761192
LMArena Russian11091187
LMArena French1159—
LMArena German1104—
LMArena Japanese967—
LMArena Korean1004—
LMArena Spanish1173—

Instruction Following Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11271186
IFEval—78%

Long Context Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11281194

Writing & Preference Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256), Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-8BOlmo 2 0325 32b Instruct
LMArena Text11661218
LMArena Creative Writing11501199
LMArena Multi-Turn11521221
WildBench—73.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-8B better than Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct?

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-8B or Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16.

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