Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Dolly 2.0-12b in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index41.025.5
Released2025-08-052023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4817

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1479776
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1443804
Epoch Capabilities Index144.1289.67
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1431871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1405836
LMArena Chinese1427836
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1435814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1419851
LMArena Creative Writing1412864
LMArena Multi-Turn1444740
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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