Model comparison

Molmo 2 8b vs Qwen3 14B

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 24.5 to 18.1.

Side by side

Molmo 2 8b and Qwen3 14B specifications
Molmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.735.0
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked512

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads

Molmo 2 8b: 24.5 (#146), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1288—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 29.5 (#106), Qwen3 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1081—

Multilingual Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 42.8 (#186), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1275—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 67.2 (#196), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1270—

Long Context Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 49.5 (#187), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1288—

Frequently asked questions

Is Molmo 2 8b better than Qwen3 14B?

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 35.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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