Model comparison

Olmo 7b Instruct vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 59.6 to 25.8.

Side by side

Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
Olmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.343.5
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked1049

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding10161445
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts9931433
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.85
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Math10181432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1463

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English9771409
LMArena Chinese10141481
LMArena Russian9471411
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following9781408
IFEval—83.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench—75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text10321419
LMArena Creative Writing9901384
LMArena Multi-Turn10071432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 7b Instruct or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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