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Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

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

38.8

Rank #168 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 52.3 to 42.8.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.842.5
Released—2025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked1625

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding13461441

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13221428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math13051440
Omni-MATH—46.7%

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert13071416
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English12751407
LMArena Chinese13041461
LMArena French13281415
LMArena German12831416
LMArena Korean12061366
LMArena Russian12681403
LMArena Spanish13371436
LMArena Japanese—1398

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12981388
IFEval—81%

Long Context Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13121403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)

BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text13111417
LMArena Creative Writing12641333
LMArena Multi-Turn13091415
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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