AllenAI: Molmo2 8B
Analysis Summary
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 565 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.200 input and $0.200 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a mid-sized context window and supports vision.
Editorial notes
AllenAI Molmo2 8B is a compact vision-capable model with text, image, and video input support, but limited coding and reasoning benchmarks place it firmly in the lightweight tier.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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Performance Profile
How AllenAI: Molmo2 8B compares
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B ranks #354 of 370 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #274 of 307 for coding. Its 37K-token context window is larger than 32% of the models we list. At $0.20 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 53% of comparable models.
About AllenAI: 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.
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
allenai/molmo-2-8b
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| Provider | allenai |
| Release Date | January 9, 2026 |
| Context Length | 36,864 tokens |
| Max Completion | 36,864 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
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Frequently asked questions about AllenAI: Molmo2 8B
How much does AllenAI: Molmo2 8B cost?
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of AllenAI: Molmo2 8B?
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B has a context window of 36,864 tokens (37K).
Is AllenAI: Molmo2 8B good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, AllenAI: Molmo2 8B ranks #274 of 307 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can AllenAI: Molmo2 8B do?
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B supports image/vision input.
Who created AllenAI: Molmo2 8B?
AllenAI: Molmo2 8B is developed by AllenAI and was released on January 9, 2026.
