Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Think vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Olmo 3.1 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads 36.3 to 12.6.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Think and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.929.0
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1515

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 37.7 (#189), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1291—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 25.2 (#150), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1272—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.51

Math Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 36.3 (#168), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1305—

Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 35.7 (#181), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1295—
MMLU—72.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.1 (#231), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1209—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1260—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Russian1193—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 65.6 (#218), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1247—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.6 (#195), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1272—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 46.2 (#220), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1272—
LMArena Creative Writing1226—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1252—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Think better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Think or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Think scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Think and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Think has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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