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Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

38.8

Rank #168 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 39.9 to 31.0.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.838.5
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 Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding13461416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13221398
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 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math13051394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert13071395
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12751372
LMArena Chinese13041434
LMArena French13281419
LMArena German12831379
LMArena Korean12061333
LMArena Russian12681369
LMArena Spanish13371403
LMArena Japanese—1338

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following12981364

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13121379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text13111384
LMArena Creative Writing12641318
LMArena Multi-Turn13091378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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