Model comparison

Olmo 7b Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.6 to 25.8.

Side by side

Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B specifications
Olmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.338.9
Released—2025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked1032

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding10161416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts9931398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math10181394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%
LMArena Expert—1396

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English9771372
LMArena Chinese10141433
LMArena Russian9471370
LMArena French—1418
LMArena German—1380
LMArena Japanese—1337
LMArena Korean—1331
LMArena Spanish—1404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following9781363

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%
LMArena Longer Query—1379

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text10321384
LMArena Creative Writing9901317
LMArena Multi-Turn10071378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 7b Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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