Model comparison
Molmo 2 8b vs QwQ-32B
Molmo 2 8b and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Molmo 2 8b scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 67.0.
Side by side
| Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 39.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 5 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1287 | 1325 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1324 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1081 | — |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1276 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1288 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Molmo 2 8b better than QwQ-32B?
Molmo 2 8b and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and QwQ-32B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.