Model comparison
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.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)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.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
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 Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
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 Not comparable
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 Not comparable
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 Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
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 Molmo 2 8b leads
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 Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
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% | — |
Frequently asked questions
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.