Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.2 to 35.4.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.838.4
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1613

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1346—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131), Qwen3.6 Flash: 28.4 (#90)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1322—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169), Qwen3.6 Flash: 38.0 (#88)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1305—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.2 (#90)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1307—

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1298—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1312—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1311—
LMArena Creative Writing1264—
LMArena Multi-Turn1309—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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