Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 1 category and Molmo 2 8b in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 15.3.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1287 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |
Multimodal Too close to call
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1276 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.