Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Molmo 2 8b

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 30.2.
  • Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Molmo 2 8b specifications
Gemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index54.839.1
Released2025-11-18—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked675

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Molmo 2 8b: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Molmo 2 8b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts14801287
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Molmo 2 8b: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Molmo 2 8b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
LMArena Vision13051081
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
LMArena Non-English14741276
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
LMArena Instruction Following14581270
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Molmo 2 8b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProMolmo 2 8b
LMArena Text14791288
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Molmo 2 8b?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Molmo 2 8b share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.

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