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Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 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 5 leads 79.2 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index67.825.5
Released2026-07-242023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5717

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1534776
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1526804
Epoch Capabilities Index162.7889.67
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1531871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
LMArena Expert1557—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1501836
LMArena Chinese1574836
LMArena French1519—
LMArena German1524—
LMArena Japanese1516—
LMArena Korean1521—
LMArena Russian1507—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1517814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1515—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1507851
LMArena Creative Writing1491864
LMArena Multi-Turn1499740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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