Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Olmo 3 32b Think

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Olmo 3 32b Think in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.4 to 49.2.
  • Olmo 3 32b Think has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Olmo 3 32b Think specifications
Claude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
ProviderAnthropicAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index42.938.1
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5614

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Olmo 3 32b Think: 38.0 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Coding14421318
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Olmo 3 32b Think: 24.9 (#138)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Hard Prompts13991302
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Olmo 3 32b Think: 33.8 (#165)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Math13911315
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Olmo 3 32b Think: 34.4 (#189)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Expert13841272
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Olmo 3 32b Think: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Olmo 3 32b Think: 41.4 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Non-English13621255
LMArena Chinese13861300
LMArena French13701291
LMArena German13911290
LMArena Russian13921255
LMArena Japanese1332—
LMArena Korean1318—
LMArena Spanish1388—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Olmo 3 32b Think: 67.4 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Instruction Following14061275
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Olmo 3 32b Think: 39.4 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Longer Query14221296
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Olmo 3 32b Think: 49.2 (#188)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Olmo 3 32b Think
LMArena Text13771300
LMArena Creative Writing13861256
LMArena Multi-Turn13961289
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Olmo 3 32b Think?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Olmo 3 32b Think better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Olmo 3 32b Think share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3 32b Think has 14.

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