Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 4.5 leads 66.5 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index44.125.5
Released2025-09-292023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked7317

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1489776
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1462804
Epoch Capabilities Index146.8489.67
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
ForecastBench61.9—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1449871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—
LMArena Expert1482—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1425836
LMArena Chinese1459836
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1427—
LMArena Japanese1390—
LMArena Korean1403—
LMArena Russian1437—
LMArena Spanish1457—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1459814
IFEval85%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1439851
LMArena Creative Writing1442864
LMArena Multi-Turn1465740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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