# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

> Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-olmo-3-1-32b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 33.6 to 20.8.
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 240 | 168 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 38.9 (#154)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1346 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 25.4 (#131)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1322 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 33.6 (#169)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1305 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 35.4 (#175)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1307 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.8 (#185)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1275 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1328 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1283 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1268 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.8 (#182)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1298 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#161)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1312 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.4 (#179)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1311 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1264 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1309 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.