Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 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 4.6 leads 73.7 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index58.324.9
Released2026-02-042023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6817

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1535776
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1527804
Epoch Capabilities Index155.3688.94
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1490836
LMArena Chinese1551836
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1523814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1504851
LMArena Creative Writing1506864
LMArena Multi-Turn1514740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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