Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Molmo 2 8b

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 4 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large

Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Molmo 2 8b

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

39.1

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 1 category and Molmo 2 8b in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 15.8.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Molmo 2 8b specifications
	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
Provider	Mistral AI	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index	31.9	39.1
Released	2024-02-26	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	131K	—
Max output	16K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$2	—
Output $ / M tokens	$6	—
Results tracked	51	5

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Molmo 2 8b: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
SciCode	36.2%	—
BigCodeBench Instruct	30%	—
LiveBench Coding	47.1%	—
LMArena Coding	1277	—
BigCodeBench Complete	38.3%	—
ALE-Bench	264.7	—
HumanEval+	62.2%	—
MBPP+	59.5%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Molmo 2 8b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	38.4%	—

Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads

Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts	1257	1287
SimpleBench	22.5%	—
CritPt	0%	—
LiveBench Reasoning	43.5%	—
DTBench	65.1%	—
LiveBench Data Analysis	50.1%	—
LMCA	16.7%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	128.52	—
ForecastBench	57.1	—
LiveBench	48.4%	—

Math Not comparable

Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Molmo 2 8b: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	8.5%	—
Omni-MATH	28.1%	—
LiveBench Math	42.5%	—
LMArena Math	1262	—
MATH Level 5	50.3%	—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	0.3%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Molmo 2 8b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
GPQA Diamond	51.3%	—
MMLU-Pro	59.9%	—
Confabulations	21.4%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	4.5%	—
GPQA (HELM)	43.5%	—
LMArena Expert	1232	—
MMLU	80%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large: —, Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Vision	—	1081

Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads

Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Non-English	1237	1276
LMArena Chinese	1240	—
LMArena French	1325	—
LMArena German	1254	—
LMArena Japanese	1188	—
LMArena Korean	1202	—
LMArena Russian	1257	—
LMArena Spanish	1268	—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Instruction Following	1249	1270
LiveBench Instruction Following	67.9%	—
IFEval	87.7%	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Molmo 2 8b: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Longer Query	1261	—

Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads

Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Text	1266	1288
LMArena Creative Writing	1243	—
Short-Story Creative Writing	69%	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	985	—
WildBench	80.1%	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1260	—
LiveBench Language	39.4%	—

Frequently asked questions

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