Model comparison

Molmo 2 8b vs Ring-2.6-1T

Molmo 2 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#170); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Molmo 2 8b and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Molmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Ant Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index38.736.3
Released—2026-05-14
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked53

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Ring-2.6-1T: 40.1

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
SciCode—42.4%
ALE-Bench—432.57

Reasoning Too close to call

Molmo 2 8b: 24.5 (#146), Ring-2.6-1T: 25.3

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
CritPt—3.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts1288—

Multimodal Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 29.5 (#106), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1081—

Multilingual Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 42.8 (#186), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1275—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 67.2 (#196), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1270—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 49.5 (#187), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1288—

Frequently asked questions

Is Molmo 2 8b better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Molmo 2 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#170); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Ring-2.6-1T share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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