Model comparison
GPT-3.5-turbo vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 0 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Molmo 2 8b leads 49.4 to 25.3.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 23.2 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-03-01 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 16K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 44 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 3.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1136 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 21.5% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1108 | 1287 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3% | — |
| DTBench | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | 9.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 61.6% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 57% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 50.4 | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1142 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 15.9% | — |
| GSM8K | 57.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1070 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.4% | — |
| BoolQ | 87% | — |
| MMLU | 71.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 86% | — |
| TriviaQA | 85.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1108 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1075 | — |
| LMArena French | 1118 | — |
| LMArena German | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1043 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1019 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1123 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1121 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1119 | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1121 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1125 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1092 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 451 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1117 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Molmo 2 8b share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.