Model comparison

Olmo 7b Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 27.8 to 15.4.

Side by side

Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Olmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.726.2
Released—2025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked104

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Coding1016—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts993—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
LMArena Math1018—

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%

Multilingual Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English977—
LMArena Chinese1013—
LMArena Russian946—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following978—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1032—
LMArena Creative Writing990—
LMArena Multi-Turn1007—

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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