Model comparison

Claude Fable 5 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Fable 5 Anthropic

66.8

Rank #5 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Fable 5 scores higher in 6 categories and Dolly 2.0-12b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Fable 5 leads 76.8 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Fable 5 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index66.825.5
Released2026-06-072023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked6217

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Category by category

Coding Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 70.6 (#4), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1519776
DeepSWE69.9%—
FrontierCode53.5%—
LMArena WebDev1625—
FrontierSWE47%—
SciCode61%—
GSO78.4%—
WeirdML91.9%—
MirrorCode63.9%—
ALE-Bench2,041—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 54.0 (#2), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
APEX-Agents63.6%—
Remote Labor Index16.1%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
PostTrainBench41.8%—
GBAEval74.5%—
GDP.pdf30%—
LMArena Search1230—
Vending-Bench 25,680—

Reasoning Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 76.8 (#6), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1508804
Epoch Capabilities Index162.0689.67
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
SimpleBench81.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark91.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.7%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt28.6%—
Chess Puzzles41%—
EnigmaEval39.3%—
EBR-Bench39.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles52%—
DTBench98.4%—
LMCA61.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Bench to the Future 30.13—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 88.5 (#5), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1519871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87%—
FrontierMath Tier 490.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench95%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 62.2 (#25), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond85.9%—
SimpleQA Verified70.7%—
LMArena Expert1534—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 45.3 (#17), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1324—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly35.8%—
LMArena Document1496—

Multilingual Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 57.3 (#9), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1481836
LMArena Chinese1543836
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1486—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1488—
LMArena Russian1504—
LMArena Spanish1498—

Instruction Following Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 78.6 (#8), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1502814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Fable 5: 46.3 (#23), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1509—

Writing & Preference Claude Fable 5 leads

Claude Fable 5: 75.9 (#5), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Fable 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1491851
LMArena Creative Writing1494864
LMArena Multi-Turn1504740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1943—
EQ-Bench 41340—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Fable 5 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Fable 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 66.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Fable 5 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Fable 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.6 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Fable 5 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Fable 5 has 62 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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