Model comparison

Olmo 3 32b Think vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

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Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3 32b Think leads 33.8 to 11.8.

Side by side

Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Olmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.128.6
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1415

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Category by category

Coding Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.0 (#169), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1318—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 24.9 (#138), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1302—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.44

Math Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 33.8 (#165), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1315—

Knowledge Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 34.4 (#189), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1272—
MMLU—72.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.4 (#205), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1255—
LMArena Chinese1300—
LMArena French1291—
LMArena German1290—
LMArena Russian1255—

Instruction Following Olmo 3 32b Think leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.4 (#193), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1275—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#177), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1296—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.2 (#188), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1256—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1289—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3 32b Think better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Olmo 3 32b Think is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 3 32b Think or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 3 32b Think scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3 32b Think has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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