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Molmo Instruct on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Molmo Instruct scores 75.9 on IFEval, placing it #390 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
75.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#390
of 600
Percentile
35th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
20.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Molmo Instruct highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Molmo Instruct sits at #390 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 20.2 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Molmo Instruct below the midpoint.

Allen Institute for AI models average 70.3 on this benchmark. Molmo Instruct is 5.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Allen Institute for AI model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 77.0. Molmo Instruct is 1.1 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 75.9 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 $2.53 per million input tokens, Molmo Instruct is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Nano Anthropic 65536 $6.93 68.9
Molmo Chat Allen Institute for AI 32768 $2.40 66.7
DeepSeek-V3.2 8B DeepSeek 32768 $2.02 66.2
Embed 4 Reasoning Cohere 4096 $5.50 65.3
Molmo Instruct Allen Institute for AI 32768 $2.53 68.3
Nova Lite Mini Amazon 16384 $5.43 65.0
Nemotron Nano Base NVIDIA 8192 $1.85 65.0

Other benchmarks for Molmo Instruct

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 74.7 341 43th
GPQA Diamond 61.4 395 34th
SWE-bench Verified 57.4 364 39th
HumanEval 74.6 351 42th
MATH-500 68.5 393 35th
AIME 2025 62.2 375 38th
LiveCodeBench 57.8 391 35th
TruthfulQA 73.6 364 39th
HellaSwag 79.5 387 36th
MMMU 65.7 375 38th
Arena Elo 1350.5 363 40th

FAQ

What score does Molmo Instruct get on IFEval?

Molmo Instruct scores 75.9 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Molmo Instruct rank on IFEval?

It ranks #390 of 600 models, in the 35th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Molmo Instruct good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 Instruct cost?

Molmo Instruct costs $2.53 per million input tokens and $9.23 per million output tokens.

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