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Vision Index

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

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 2.7 points, and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B scores higher on 6 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

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

At a glance

MeasureNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3BMolmo 2 8B
Visual Intelligence Index60.3%57.6%
Rank#8 of 9#9 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.——
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.14.7s62.2s
Tokens per task35,34112,048
Input / 1M tokens——
Output / 1M tokens——
Context window262K37K
AvailabilityOpen weightsOpen weights

How cost and latency are measured

Capabilities

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

CapabilityNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3BMolmo 2 8B
Perception61.0%58.7%
Spatial Reasoning62.0%61.0%
Temporal Reasoning60.2%57.5%
Action / Event Understanding55.6%51.1%
Causal Reasoning63.6%61.7%
Information Retrieval57.1%52.1%

Benchmarks

BenchmarkNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3BMolmo 2 8B
Video-MME v235.0%27.5%
LVBench54.2%48.6%
Perception Test70.3%67.4%
NExT-QA81.2%89.2%
Q-Bench Video64.9%62.9%
EgoSchema65.8%58.2%
UCF101-AD31.0%19.5%

Usability

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

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