Model comparison
Llama 4 Scout vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 1 category and Molmo 2 8b in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 24.5 to 9.2.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 27.4 | 38.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 9.1% | — |
| SciCode | 17% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.1% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339), Molmo 2 8b: 24.5 (#146)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1288 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 0.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 12% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.64 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 37.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1286 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 62.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1236 | — |
Multimodal Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98), Molmo 2 8b: 29.5 (#106)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | 1081 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 34.2% | — |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207), Molmo 2 8b: 42.8 (#186)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1253 | 1275 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1256 | — |
| LMArena French | 1283 | — |
| LMArena German | 1274 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1277 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212), Molmo 2 8b: 67.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1270 |
| IFEval | 81.8% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1265 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256), Molmo 2 8b: 49.5 (#187)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1279 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1249 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 783 | — |
| WildBench | 78% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1281 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and Molmo 2 8b share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.