Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Molmo 2 8b

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Molmo 2 8b

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

39.1

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Molmo 2 8b in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 51.9 to 42.7.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Molmo 2 8b specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
Provider	Mistral AI	Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index	40.2	39.1
Released	—	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	—
Max output	210K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	—
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	—
Results tracked	22	5

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Molmo 2 8b: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena WebDev	1264	—
LMArena Coding	1461	—

Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1287
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	—

Math Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Molmo 2 8b: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Math	1431	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Molmo 2 8b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Expert	1432	—

Multimodal Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Vision	1223	1081

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Non-English	1404	1276
LMArena Chinese	1442	—
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena German	1451	—
LMArena Korean	1385	—
LMArena Russian	1395	—
LMArena Spanish	1409	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1270

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Molmo 2 8b: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Longer Query	1415	—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Molmo 2 8b
LMArena Text	1421	1288
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	—
EQ-Bench 4	993	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	—

Frequently asked questions

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