# Amazon Nova Micro vs Molmo 2 8b

> Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-molmo-2-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Molmo 2 8b leads 67.0 to 56.3.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 294 | 174 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1287 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | — |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Molmo 2 8b?

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Molmo 2 8b share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.