Model comparison

Olmo 7b Instruct vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 53.1 to 26.0.

Side by side

Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3 32B specifications
Olmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.738.8
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked1026

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding10161358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts9931335
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
DTBench—67.5%
LMCA—17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.51

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Math10181399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond—65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
LMArena Expert—1362

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286), Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English9771317
LMArena Chinese10131357
LMArena Russian9461311
LMArena German—1341

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296), Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following9781305

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1327

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298), Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Text10321340
LMArena Creative Writing9901297
LMArena Multi-Turn10071331

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 7b Instruct or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3 32B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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