Model comparison

o1 vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 7 categories and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 39.9.
  • Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
o1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderOpenAIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index40.939.4
Released2024-09-12—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked5216

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

o1: 46.1 (#70), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding13671347
Aider Polyglot61.7%—
WeirdML47.6%—
LiveBench Coding69.7%—
CadEval56%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+80.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1: 24.6 (#117), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons51.1%—

Reasoning o1 leads

o1: 27.9 (#111), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13711322
SimpleBench41.7%—
ARC-AGI-130.7%—
Chess Puzzles15%—
EnigmaEval5.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%—
DTBench74.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA22.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.91—
LiveBench75.7%—

Math Too close to call

o1: 36.1 (#175), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Math13881305
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)14.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
LiveBench Math80.3%—
MATH Level 594.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)9.3%—

Knowledge o1 leads

o1: 41.5 (#110), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Expert13611308
GPQA Diamond76.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified41.1%—
Confabulations11.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

o1: 34.2 (#93), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Vision1168—
GeoBench80%—
VPCT37%—
SpatialViz-Bench41.4%—

Multilingual o1 leads

o1: 48.6 (#142), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13581275
LMArena Chinese13941304
LMArena French13441328
LMArena German13371282
LMArena Korean13961206
LMArena Russian13561268
LMArena Spanish13451336
LMArena Japanese1346—

Instruction Following o1 leads

o1: 74.8 (#86), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13671299
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—

Long Context o1 leads

o1: 50.3 (#9), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13781312
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference o1 leads

o1: 55.6 (#144), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text13661311
LMArena Creative Writing13481264
LMArena Multi-Turn13691309
Short-Story Creative Writing70.2%—
LiveBench Language65.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1 better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1 or Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1 and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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