Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen3 14B

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 25.4 to 18.1.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3 14B specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.835.0
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1612

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding1346—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1322—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math1305—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1307—

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1275—
LMArena Chinese1304—
LMArena French1328—
LMArena German1283—
LMArena Korean1206—
LMArena Russian1268—
LMArena Spanish1337—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1298—

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1312—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1311—
LMArena Creative Writing1264—
LMArena Multi-Turn1309—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen3 14B?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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