Model comparison
Mixtral 8x7B vs Molmo 2 8b
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B 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 67.2 to 51.2.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 26.8 | 38.7 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 32K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1127 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283), Molmo 2 8b: 24.5 (#146)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | 1288 |
| DTBench | 49.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.38 | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: —, Molmo 2 8b: 29.5 (#106)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1081 |
Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261), Molmo 2 8b: 42.8 (#186)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | 1275 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | — |
| LMArena French | 1165 | — |
| LMArena German | 1114 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1110 | — |
Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292), Molmo 2 8b: 67.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1110 | 1270 |
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255), Molmo 2 8b: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |
Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265), Molmo 2 8b: 49.5 (#187)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Molmo 2 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | 1288 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Molmo 2 8b?
Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.7 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Molmo 2 8b share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Molmo 2 8b has 5.