Model comparison
Molmo 2 8b vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 14.8.
Side by side
| Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 29.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 5 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1287 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
Math Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1081 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1276 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1288 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Molmo 2 8b better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.