Molmo2 Human Preference: leaderboard

Pairwise human preference study from the Molmo2 paper (Allen Institute for AI and University of Washington, 2026): annotators compare two models' answers to 450 open-ended questions about videos and their captions of 51 videos, over 105,000 ratings in all. Scores are Bradley-Terry Elo ratings (bootstrap median over 1,000 rounds) relative to the models in the study; higher is better.

Metric: Elo rating (bootstrap median, Bradley-Terry; pairwise human preferences on 450 video questions and 51 captioning videos). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around March 2027. 21 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Pro1096#262
2Gemini 2.5 Flash1084#452
3Gemini 3 Pro1082#135
4GPT-5 Mini1076#349
5Molmo2-8B1057#1488
6GPT-51031#163
7Claude Sonnet 4.51008#244
8GLM-4.1V-9B (Thinking)962#1061 (GLM-4.1V-9B)

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=molmo2-human-preference · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.