Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen3-4B

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 26.4 to 19.2.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-4B specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.431.9
Released—2025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked166

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding1347—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1322—

Math Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1305—

Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1308—

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1299—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1312—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1311—
LMArena Creative Writing1264—
LMArena Multi-Turn1309—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen3-4B?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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