Model comparison
Amazon Nova Lite vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Molmo 2 8b leads 67.0 to 59.3.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1239 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 236.25 | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | 1287 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 36.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 37.2% | — |
| LiveBench | 36.4% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 23.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1227 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1201 | — |
| MMLU | 77% | — |
Multimodal Molmo 2 8b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 990 | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1208 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1237 | — |
| LMArena German | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1153 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1226 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1205 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 54.1% | — |
| IFEval | 77.6% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1234 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Lite | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1197 | — |
| WildBench | 75% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1199 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.