Head to head

OLMo vs Claude

OLMo (Allen Institute for AI) and Claude (Anthropic) both sit in Writing. OLMo is the cheaper entry point at Open weights, free. Claude shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (12 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeOLMo

Allen Institute for AI

Claude

Anthropic

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionOLMo 35.5
Entry costOpen weights, freeFree tier · from $17/mo
Pricing tiers—Free free · Pro (Annual Subscription Discount) $17 · Pro (Billed Monthly) $20 · Max $100 · Ultra $200 · Team Standard seat (Billed Monthly) $25 · Team Standard seat (Billed Annually) $20 · Team Premium seat (Billed Monthly) $125
Model stackOLMo 3Claude Fable 5 · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Haiku 5.5 · Claude Mythos 5 · Claude Mythos 5.1 · Claude Opus 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Sonnet 5 · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Opus 4.6 · Opus 4.7 · Sonnet 4.5 · Sonnet 4.6
Context window—1M
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d012
OriginGlobalGlobal
CapabilitiesOpen data, Open checkpoints, Full recipeExtended thinking, Agentic research, Computer use, Projects & memory, Artifacts, MCP connectors, Vision, Code execution
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