Model comparison

Olmo 3 32b Think vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.7 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.1 to 35.0.
  • Olmo 3 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Olmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.738.8
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1413

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.6 (#172), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1319—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 25.9 (#140), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1302—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 36.5 (#165), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1316—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Olmo 3 32b Think: 35.0 (#190), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1273—

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.2 (#210), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1255—
LMArena Chinese1300—
LMArena French1291—
LMArena German1290—
LMArena Russian1254—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.2 (#198), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1275—

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#182), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1296—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.1 (#193), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 3 32b ThinkQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1256—
LMArena Multi-Turn1290—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 3 32b Think better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.7 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 3 32b Think and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 3 32b Think has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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