# o3 vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o3-vs-olmo-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. o3 scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 25.8.
- Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 47.5 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 61 | 295 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $8 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o3: 46.8 (#64)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1016 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.3% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 58.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 81.3% | — |
| GSO | 8.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 52.4% | — |
| CadEval | 74% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 933.55 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o3: 34.5 (#44)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 30.8% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.2% | — |
| OSWorld | 23% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1144 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 65.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- o3: 32.0 (#78)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1402 | 993 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 6.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 60.8% | — |
| CritPt | 1.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 38% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 13.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 29% | — |
| DTBench | 84.8% | — |
| LMCA | 39.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.86 | — |
| ForecastBench | 62.5 | — |

## Math

- o3: 50.2 (#58)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1426 | 1018 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 33.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 71.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.8% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 18.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- o3: 54.6 (#52)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 81.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 20.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 49.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 75.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1402 | — |

## Multimodal

- o3: 41.4 (#36)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1214 | — |
| GeoBench | 74% | — |
| VPCT | 52% | — |

## Multilingual

- o3: 51.7 (#105)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1401 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1437 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1406 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1430 | — |
| LMArena German | 1420 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1395 | — |

## Instruction Following

- o3: 72.8 (#127)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1368 | 978 |
| IFEval | 86.9% | — |

## Long Context

- o3: 53.3 (#6)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 88.9% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.8% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1372 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- o3: 63.5 (#64)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | o3 | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1410 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1359 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1405 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1676 | — |
| WildBench | 86.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o3 better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o3 or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o3 and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.