Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Claude 3 Sonnet and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 27.8 to 10.0.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Claude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index28.829.7
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3010

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding12231016
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1197993
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math12131018
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1205977
LMArena Chinese11881013
LMArena Russian1227946
LMArena French1228—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1200978

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text12181032
LMArena Creative Writing1186990
LMArena Multi-Turn12271007

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.2 vs 29.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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