Model comparison
Olmo 7b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 25.8.
Side by side
| Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.3 | 29.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1016 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 993 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1018 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 977 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1014 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 947 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 978 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Olmo 7b Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 990 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1007 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Olmo 7b Instruct or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.