Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B 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 30.7.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1287 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral 7B: —, Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Molmo 2 8b share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.