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Vision Index

Gemini 4 Argon vs Molmo 2 8B

Gemini 4 Argon leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 26.5 points, and Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on 7 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

GoogleGemini 4 Argon84.1%Rank #1Ai2Molmo 2 8B57.6%Rank #10

At a glance

MeasureGemini 4 ArgonMolmo 2 8B
Visual Intelligence Index84.1%57.6%
Rank#1 of 10#10 of 10
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.$0.110—
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.23.9s62.2s
Tokens per task54,61412,048
Input / 1M tokens$2.00—
Output / 1M tokens$10.00—
Context window1.05M37K
AvailabilityProprietaryOpen weights

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

CapabilityGemini 4 ArgonMolmo 2 8B
Perception81.7%58.7%
Spatial Reasoning85.4%61.0%
Temporal Reasoning84.5%57.5%
Action / Event Understanding84.7%51.1%
Causal Reasoning85.4%61.7%
Information Retrieval82.7%52.1%

Benchmarks

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonMolmo 2 8B
Video-MME v277.0%27.5%
LVBench86.3%48.6%
Perception Test89.7%67.4%
NExT-QA90.0%89.2%
Q-Bench Video66.9%62.9%
EgoSchema86.4%58.2%
UCF101-AD81.8%19.5%

Usability

Gemini 4 Argon

4.0/ 5

Reachable1.0

There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.

  • First-party API — supported
  • Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0

You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.

  • Open weights — not supported
  • Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input1.0

It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.

  • Video ingestion — supported
  • Audio — supported
Programmable1.0

Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.

  • Structured output — supported
  • Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0

Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.

  • Streaming — supported
  • Batch API — supported

Molmo 2 8B

3.5/ 5

Reachable0.5

There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.

  • First-party API — supported
  • Third-party API — not supported
Portable1.0

You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.

  • Open weights — supported
  • Self-hostable — supported
Multimodal input0.5

It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.

  • Video ingestion — supported
  • Audio — not supported
Programmable1.0

Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.

  • Structured output — supported
  • Tool calling — supported
Operable0.5

Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.

  • Streaming — supported
  • Batch API — not supported