# Mixtral 8x7B vs Molmo 2 8b

> Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x7b-vs-molmo-2-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B 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 51.0.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 334 | 174 |
| Context | 32K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
- Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | 1287 |
| DTBench | 49.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.47 | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | — |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mixtral 8x7B: —
- Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
- Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | 1276 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | — |
| LMArena French | 1166 | — |
| LMArena German | 1114 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
- Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | 1270 |
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
- Molmo 2 8b: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
- Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Molmo 2 8b?

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Molmo 2 8b share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.