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Molmo 8B on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means

Molmo 8B scores 47.9 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #540 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
47.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#540
of 600
Percentile
10th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
39.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Molmo 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Reasoning 87.0
GPT-5.1 Max 86.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 86.0
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 85.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.2 84.9
o4 Turbo 84.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 84.6
Grok 4 Turbo 84.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
7 o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
10 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2

What this score means

On GPQA Diamond, Molmo 8B sits at #540 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 39.1 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Molmo 8B below the midpoint.

Allen Institute for AI models average 55.6 on this benchmark. Molmo 8B is 7.7 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 49.3. Molmo 8B is 1.4 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 47.9 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 $0.44 per million input tokens, Molmo 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
OLMo 2 7B Allen Institute for AI 16384 $0.56 51.7
Llama 3.3 Groq 1.5B Groq 4096 $0.46 50.0
Yi-Lightning 1.5B 01.AI 4096 $0.54 50.0
Arctic 8B Snowflake 8192 $0.65 52.4
Molmo 8B Allen Institute for AI 32768 $0.44 49.9
Mixtral Turbo 7B Together AI 8192 $0.68 53.2
Phi-3.5 7B Microsoft 4096 $0.50 50.5

Other benchmarks for Molmo 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 55.7 569 5th
SWE-bench Verified 33.6 567 6th
HumanEval 54.0 549 9th
MATH-500 49.2 560 7th
AIME 2025 35.5 564 6th
LiveCodeBench 35.6 568 5th
IFEval 60.2 572 5th
TruthfulQA 58.2 545 9th
HellaSwag 69.1 545 9th
MMMU 50.4 549 9th
Arena Elo 1186.2 568 5th

FAQ

What score does Molmo 8B get on GPQA Diamond?

Molmo 8B scores 47.9 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does Molmo 8B rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #540 of 600 models, in the 10th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is Molmo 8B good at GPQA Diamond?

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 GPQA Diamond score calculated?

GPQA Diamond is a reasoning 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 8B cost?

Molmo 8B costs $0.44 per million input tokens and $2.29 per million output tokens.

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