Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 19.8.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1287 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | 1081 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.