Model comparison

Olmo 3 32b Think vs Phi-4

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 3 32b Think scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3 32b Think leads 36.5 to 20.8.

Side by side

Olmo 3 32b Think and Phi-4 specifications
Olmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Microsoft
Noometry Index38.731.2
Released—2024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1437

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.6 (#172), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Coding13191231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 25.9 (#140), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts13021220
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 36.5 (#165), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Math13161246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 35.0 (#190), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Expert12731203
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.2 (#210), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Non-English12551197
LMArena Chinese13001212
LMArena French12911224
LMArena German12901222
LMArena Russian12541209
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.2 (#198), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following12751201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#182), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query12961217

Writing & Preference Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.1 (#193), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkPhi-4
LMArena Text13001217
LMArena Creative Writing12561182
LMArena Multi-Turn12901206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3 32b Think better than Phi-4?

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3 32b Think or Phi-4 better for coding?

Olmo 3 32b Think scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3 32b Think and Phi-4 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3 32b Think has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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