Model comparison
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.7 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads 26.8 to 19.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 41.4% for Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct and 63.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
Side by side
| Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.7 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.2 (#227), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1210 | 1292 |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 23.6 (#175), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1208 | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 82.3% |
Math Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 26.8 (#255), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 16.1% | 33% |
| LMArena Math | 1208 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.5 (#279), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 41.4% | 63.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 28.7% | 42.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1245 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 94.5% |
| MMLU | — | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.8 (#248), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1160 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1192 | 1272 |
| LMArena Russian | 1187 | 1264 |
| LMArena French | — | 1280 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1256 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.5 (#244), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 78% | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1186 | 1254 |
Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#234), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1194 | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.1 (#236), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1199 | 1221 |
| WildBench | 73.4% | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1221 | 1272 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.7 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.