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Molmo2 8B
Molmo2-8B is an open vision-language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) as part of the Molmo2 family, supporting image, video, and multi-image understanding and grounding. It is based on Qwen3-8B and uses SigLIP 2 as its vision backbone, outperforming other open-weight, open-data models on short videos, counting, and captioning, while remaining competitive on long-video tasks.
1/9/2026
36,864 tokens
#117 Vision (Overall)
Specifications
Modalities
Input
text
image
video
Output
text
Supported Parameters
frequency_penalty
logit_bias
max_tokens
presence_penalty
repetition_penalty
seed
stop
temperature
top_k
top_p
Max Output Tokens
36,864Frequently asked questions
- Is Molmo2 8B available on FastMetal?
- Not at the moment. GLM 5.3 Flash, from the same lab, is available on the FastMetal API today.
- What is the context window of Molmo2 8B?
- 36,864 tokens, shared between the prompt and the response.
- How does Molmo2 8B rank?
- #233 on the public arena's Overall board (ELO 1,328). Ranks move as the leaderboard is updated.
Leaderboard
Text
OverallELO: 1,328
#233EnglishELO: 1,340
#242Instruction FollowingELO: 1,310
#240Hard PromptsELO: 1,339
#228Vision
OverallELO: 1,107
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