Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Molmo 2 8b
Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.1 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 Opus 4.7 scores higher in 5 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 25.6.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 58.3 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2026-04-14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 66 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 83.5% | — |
| FrontierCode | 38.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1558 | — |
| SciCode | 54.5% | — |
| GSO | 44.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 76.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1518 | — |
| MirrorCode | 31.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,323 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 80.2% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 49.2% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 18.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 40.2% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 28.6% | — |
| ExploitBench | 26.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 43.8% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 21% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1233 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 10,937 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads
Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1506 | 1287 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 75.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 61.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.7% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 39% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 93.5% | — |
| CritPt | 12% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 30% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 72.8% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 19% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 28% | — |
| DTBench | 94.7% | — |
| LMCA | 52.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.25 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.3 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 70.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 31.7% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 73.6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 97.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 54% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1499 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 43.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 22.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 36.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 51.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1521 | — |
Multimodal Claude Opus 4.7 leads
Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1316 | 1081 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.5% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1495 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads
Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1480 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1531 | — |
| LMArena French | 1503 | — |
| LMArena German | 1495 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1472 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1464 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1494 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1495 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads
Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1498 | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1505 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads
Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1490 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1486 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1914 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1505 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Molmo 2 8b?
Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.