Model comparison

Molmo 2 8b vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Molmo 2 8b

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

39.1

Rank #174 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Molmo 2 8b scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 49.4.
Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Molmo 2 8b and o3 specifications
	Molmo 2 8b	o3
Provider	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)	OpenAI
Noometry Index	39.1	47.5
Released	—	2025-04-16
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	200K
Max output	—	100K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$2
Output $ / M tokens	—	$8
Results tracked	5	63

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
SWE-bench Verified	—	62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	58.4%
Aider Polyglot	—	81.3%
GSO	—	8.8%
WeirdML	—	52.4%
LMArena Coding	—	1408
CadEval	—	74%
ALE-Bench	—	933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	63%
GDPval	—	30.8%
DeepResearch Bench	—	45.2%
OSWorld	—	23%
LMArena Search	—	1144
METR Time Horizons	—	65.4%

Reasoning o3 leads

Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
LMArena Hard Prompts	1287	1402
ARC-AGI-2	—	6.5%
SimpleBench	—	53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	67.6%
ARC-AGI-1	—	60.8%
CritPt	—	1.4%
Chess Puzzles	—	38%
EnigmaEval	—	13.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	29%
DTBench	—	84.8%
LMCA	—	39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	146.86
ForecastBench	—	62.5

Math Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	33.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	84.4%
Omni-MATH	—	71.4%
LMArena Math	—	1426
MATH Level 5	—	97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	2.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
GPQA Diamond	—	81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	20.3%
SimpleQA Verified	—	49.4%
MMLU-Pro	—	85.9%
Confabulations	—	14.4%
GPQA (HELM)	—	75.3%
LMArena Expert	—	1402

Multimodal o3 leads

Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
LMArena Vision	1081	1214
GeoBench	—	74%
VPCT	—	52%

Multilingual o3 leads

Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
LMArena Non-English	1276	1401
LMArena Chinese	—	1437
LMArena French	—	1430
LMArena German	—	1420
LMArena Japanese	—	1403
LMArena Korean	—	1370
LMArena Russian	—	1406
LMArena Spanish	—	1395

Instruction Following o3 leads

Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
LMArena Instruction Following	1270	1368
IFEval	—	86.9%

Long Context Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
Fiction.LiveBench	—	88.9%
CL-bench	—	17.8%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1372

Writing & Preference o3 leads

Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Molmo 2 8b	o3
LMArena Text	1288	1410
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1359
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1676
WildBench	—	86.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1405

Frequently asked questions

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