Molmo2 8B (free)

Allen AI chatvisionvideotool_use

API ID: allenai/molmo-2-8b-20260109

Input Price
$0.20
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.20
/1M tokens

About Molmo2 8B (free)

Molmo is Allen Institute for AI's vision-language model, designed for multimodal understanding. The model processes text and images effectively, enabling visual question answering and image analysis. Molmo demonstrates AI2's advancement in multimodal AI research. The open weights enable research and deployment flexibility. For developers seeking open-source multimodal AI, Molmo offers capable vision-language understanding.

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Price Ranking
#655 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
37k
Max Output
37k
Release Date
2026-01-09
Capabilities
chat vision video tool_use
Input Modalities
textimagevideo
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.15
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$4.80
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Molmo2 8B (free) API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="allenai/molmo-2-8b-20260109",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)