Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.3 to 39.9.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index39.539.4
Released2025-02-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked5816

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding13611347
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13331322
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13371305
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert13211308
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12961275
LMArena Chinese12991304
LMArena French13031328
LMArena German13011282
LMArena Korean12491206
LMArena Russian13111268
LMArena Spanish12981336
LMArena Japanese1267—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13521299
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13731312
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13141311
LMArena Creative Writing13321264
LMArena Multi-Turn13391309
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 39.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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