# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Molmo 2 8b

> Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-molmo-2-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 3 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 36.0 to 30.2.
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 246 | 174 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1287 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | 1081 |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1270 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Molmo 2 8b?

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Molmo 2 8b share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.