Model comparison
Molmo 2 8b vs Qwen3 32B
Molmo 2 8b and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Molmo 2 8b scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 32B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Molmo 2 8b leads 25.6 to 20.2.
Side by side
| Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 39.2 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 5 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads
Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1287 | 1334 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.51 |
Math Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), Qwen3 32B: —
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1081 | — |
Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1276 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
Molmo 2 8b: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads
Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Molmo 2 8b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1288 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Molmo 2 8b better than Qwen3 32B?
Molmo 2 8b and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Qwen3 32B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.