Molmo on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Molmo scores 79.2 on HellaSwag, placing it #392 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 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 sits at #392 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 16.9 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Molmo below the midpoint.
Allen Institute for AI models average 74.6 on this benchmark. Molmo is 4.6 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 80.2. Molmo is 1.0 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 79.2 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 $2.49 per million input tokens, Molmo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano Base | NVIDIA | 8192 | $1.85 | 65.0 |
| Phi-3.5 Base | Microsoft | 65536 | $2.24 | 66.6 |
| Reka Core Nano | Reka AI | 16384 | $5.45 | 65.1 |
| DBRX Base | Databricks | 32768 | $2.63 | 69.1 |
| Molmo | Allen Institute for AI | 32768 | $2.49 | 68.5 |
| Nova Lite Mini | Amazon | 16384 | $5.43 | 65.0 |
| Nova Pro Nano | Amazon | 8192 | $5.44 | 65.4 |
Other benchmarks for Molmo
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 74.0 | 353 | 41th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.3 | 355 | 41th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.9 | 357 | 41th | |
| HumanEval | 74.4 | 353 | 41th | |
| MATH-500 | 72.0 | 366 | 39th | |
| AIME 2025 | 59.3 | 392 | 35th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 57.1 | 394 | 34th | |
| IFEval | 77.5 | 372 | 38th | |
| TruthfulQA | 74.0 | 352 | 41th | |
| MMMU | 63.3 | 397 | 34th | |
| Arena Elo | 1328.8 | 389 | 35th |
FAQ
What score does Molmo get on HellaSwag?
Molmo scores 79.2 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Molmo rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #392 of 600 models, in the 35th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Molmo 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 cost?
Molmo costs $2.49 per million input tokens and $9.45 per million output tokens.