Noometry

Model comparison

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

32.2

Rank #248 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 41.7 to 19.2.

Side by side

Olmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.238.5
Released—2025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked1632

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 34.6 (#222), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding12101416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 22.6 (#174), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts12081398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 24.8 (#255), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math12081394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%
Omni-MATH16.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 19.2 (#274), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
MMLU-Pro41.4%—
Confabulations—12.3%
GPQA (HELM)28.7%—
LMArena Expert—1395

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 35.0 (#243), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English11601372
LMArena Chinese11921434
LMArena Russian11871369
LMArena French—1419
LMArena German—1379
LMArena Japanese—1338
LMArena Korean—1333
LMArena Spanish—1403

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 61.8 (#238), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11861364
IFEval78%—

Long Context Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 36.2 (#229), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query11941379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct: 42.3 (#231), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkOlmo 2 0325 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text12181384
LMArena Creative Writing11991318
LMArena Multi-Turn12211378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
WildBench73.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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