Model comparison
Codestral vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 19.8.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1287 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1276 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1270 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1288 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Molmo 2 8b share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.