Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Molmo 2 8b leads 49.4 to 29.7.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1287 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Molmo 2 8b leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | 1081 |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | — |
| LMArena French | 1195 | — |
| LMArena German | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.