Molmo 7B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Molmo 7B scores 65.3 on HellaSwag, placing it #580 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Molmo 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Molmo 7B sits at #580 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 30.8 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Molmo 7B below the midpoint.
Allen Institute for AI models average 74.6 on this benchmark. Molmo 7B is 9.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Allen Institute for AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 70.2. Molmo 7B is 4.9 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 65.3 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $0.42 per million input tokens, Molmo 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmolLM3 8B | Hugging Face | 32768 | $0.21 | 44.0 |
| Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B | Lambda | 16384 | $0.46 | 48.4 |
| Llama 3 Modal 1.5B | Modal | 4096 | $0.42 | 49.7 |
| Phi-4 1.5B | Microsoft | 8192 | $0.42 | 48.1 |
| Molmo 7B | Allen Institute for AI | 32768 | $0.42 | 49.3 |
| Llama 3 Hyperbolic 1.5B | Hyperbolic | 32768 | $0.45 | 48.4 |
| StableLM 2 7B | Stability AI | 8192 | $0.28 | 44.3 |
Other benchmarks for Molmo 7B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 57.4 | 557 | 7th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 43.4 | 575 | 4th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 32.3 | 574 | 4th | |
| HumanEval | 51.2 | 564 | 6th | |
| MATH-500 | 50.0 | 557 | 7th | |
| AIME 2025 | 37.1 | 555 | 8th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 37.9 | 550 | 8th | |
| IFEval | 61.3 | 562 | 6th | |
| TruthfulQA | 56.1 | 565 | 6th | |
| MMMU | 50.2 | 552 | 8th | |
| Arena Elo | 1183.4 | 572 | 5th |
FAQ
What score does Molmo 7B get on HellaSwag?
Molmo 7B scores 65.3 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Molmo 7B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #580 of 600 models, in the 3rd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Molmo 7B good at HellaSwag?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Molmo 7B cost?
Molmo 7B costs $0.42 per million input tokens and $2.22 per million output tokens.