Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 26.4 to 20.7.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.429.9
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked166

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding1347—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LMArena Hard Prompts1322—

Math Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Math1305—

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Expert1308—

Multimodal Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1275—
LMArena Chinese1304—
LMArena French1328—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Korean1206—
LMArena Russian1268—
LMArena Spanish1336—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1299—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1312—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1311—
LMArena Creative Writing1264—
LMArena Multi-Turn1309—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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