Model comparison
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct vs QwQ-32B
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and QwQ-32B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 39.9.
Side by side
| Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 39.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1347 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1322 | 1325 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1305 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge QwQ-32B leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1308 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1275 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1304 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1328 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1282 | 1313 |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1268 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1336 | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1299 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1312 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1311 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1264 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1309 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better than QwQ-32B?
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct and QwQ-32B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.