Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #39 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 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 writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 68.2 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index50.524.9
Released2025-11-012023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6917

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1504776
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1476804
Epoch Capabilities Index150.188.94
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1463871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1488—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1438836
LMArena Chinese1470836
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1415—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1448—
LMArena Spanish1455—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1478814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
CL-bench21.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1480—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1451851
LMArena Creative Writing1445864
LMArena Multi-Turn1466740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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