Molmo 2 8B vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 2.7 points, and Molmo 2 8B scores higher on 1 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

Ai2Molmo 2 8B57.6%Rank #9 NVIDIANemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B60.3%Rank #8

At a glance

Measure	Molmo 2 8B	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B
Visual Intelligence Index	57.6%	60.3%
Rank	#9 of 9	#8 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	—	—
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	62.2s	14.7s
Tokens per task	12,048	35,341
Input / 1M tokens	—	—
Output / 1M tokens	—	—
Context window	37K	262K
Availability	Open weights	Open weights

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

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

Capability	Molmo 2 8B	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B	Lead
Perception	58.7%	61.0%	−2.2
Spatial Reasoning	61.0%	62.0%	−1.0
Temporal Reasoning	57.5%	60.2%	−2.7
Action / Event Understanding	51.1%	55.6%	−4.5
Causal Reasoning	61.7%	63.6%	−1.9
Information Retrieval	52.1%	57.1%	−5.0

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Molmo 2 8B	Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B	Lead
Video-MME v2	27.5%	35.0%	−7.4
LVBench	48.6%	54.2%	−5.6
Perception Test	67.4%	70.3%	−2.9
NExT-QA	89.2%	81.2%	+8.1
Q-Bench Video	62.9%	64.9%	−2.0
EgoSchema	58.2%	65.8%	−7.6
UCF101-AD	19.5%	31.0%	−11.5

Usability

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

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B

5.0/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable1.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — supported
Self-hostable — 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