Rank #9 / 9
Molmo 2 8B
Molmo 2 8B is Ai2's Molmo model (open weights). It is ranked 9 of 9 models on the Visual Intelligence Index.
- Ai2
- Open weights
- Molmo
- Video input
- Structured output
- Tool calling
- Streaming
- Self-hostable
Comparison Summary
Molmo 2 8B ranks 9 of 9 on the perception index. Immediately ahead is Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B. Weights are open and the model runs on your own hardware, so there is no provider list price to quote. The context window is 37K. Every score is from our own evaluation runs; list prices are as published by the provider. Strongest capability in this set is Causal Reasoning (62%). Weakest is Action / Event Understanding (51%).
- Visual Intelligence
- 57.6%
- Availability
- Open weights
- Input / 1M tokens
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- Output / 1M tokens
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- Context Window
- 37K
- Parameters
- 8B
All benchmark scores
| Benchmark | Metric | Score | Coverage | Setting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video-MME v2 | Accuracy, no subtitles | 27.5% | Full | 1 fps, 338-frame cap (673 videos thinned) |
| LVBench | Test accuracy | 48.6% | Full | 1 fps, 338-frame cap (103 videos thinned) |
| Perception Test | Overall accuracy | 67.4% | Full | 1 fps |
| NExT-QA | Accuracy (hard split) | 89.2% | Full | 1 fps |
| Q-Bench Video | Overall accuracy | 62.9% | Full | 1 fps |
| EgoSchema | Accuracy (fullset) | 58.2% | Full | 1 fps |
| UCF101-AD | Accuracy | 19.5% | Full | 1 fps |
Benchmark Scores
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Usability
3.5/ 5
What it's like to build against this model, scored out of five from the developer-facing capabilities in the dataset.
- 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
Other Ai2 models
Other models from the Ai2 family.
| Date | Model | Visual Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2026 | Molmo 2 8B | 57.6% |