Model comparison
Molmo 2 8b vs Nova Premier 1.0
Molmo 2 8b and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- Molmo 2 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 38.3 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 5 | 6 |
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Category by category
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1287 | — |
Math Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1081 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1276 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1288 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Molmo 2 8b better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Molmo 2 8b and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.