Model comparison

Olmo 3.1 32b Think vs Qwen3 8B

Olmo 3.1 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads 24.1 to 16.1.

Side by side

Olmo 3.1 32b Think and Qwen3 8B specifications
Olmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.333.3
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1511

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 37.1 (#186), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
LMArena Coding1292—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Think leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 24.1 (#151), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1272—
DTBench—59.7%
LMCA—8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.17

Math Too close to call

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 33.6 (#170), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
LMArena Math1305—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 35.0 (#178), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
LMArena Expert1294—

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.3 (#226), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1210—
LMArena Chinese1241—
LMArena French1262—
LMArena German1260—
LMArena Russian1193—
LMArena Spanish1288—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 65.8 (#213), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1246—

Long Context Too close to call

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 38.6 (#190), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1272—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3.1 32b Think: 46.4 (#215), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3.1 32b ThinkQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1271—
LMArena Creative Writing1226—
LMArena Multi-Turn1252—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Think better than Qwen3 8B?

Olmo 3.1 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3.1 32b Think or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Think scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.1 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3.1 32b Think and Qwen3 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3.1 32b Think has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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