Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 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 4.8 leads 72.0 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index60.725.5
Released2026-05-282023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6517

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1490776
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1482804
Epoch Capabilities Index158.2189.67
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1450836
LMArena Chinese1507836
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1476814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1461851
LMArena Creative Writing1454864
LMArena Multi-Turn1476740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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