Rank #10 / 10
Molmo 2 8B
Molmo 2 8B is Ai2's Molmo model (open weights). It is ranked 10 of 10 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 10 of 10 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
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| Benchmark | Metric | Score | Coverage | Per-question results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video-MME v2 | Accuracy, no subtitles | 27.5% | Full (3200/3200) | Eval Details |
| LVBench | Test accuracy | 48.6% | Full (1549/1549) | Eval Details |
| Perception Test | Overall accuracy | 67.4% | Full (454/454) | Eval Details |
| NExT-QA | Accuracy (hard split) | 89.2% | Full (4996/4996) | Eval Details |
| Q-Bench Video | Overall accuracy | 62.9% | Full (868/868) | Eval Details |
| EgoSchema | Accuracy (fullset) | 58.2% | Full (500/500) | Eval Details |
| UCF101-AD | Accuracy | 19.5% | Full (4224/4224) | Eval Details |
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Usability
3.5/ 5
What it's like to use this model for real video tasks.
- 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
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| Date | Model | Visual Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2026 | Molmo 2 8B | 57.6% |