Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 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 leads 57.1 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index40.825.5
Released2025-05-222023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5817

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1414776
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1372804
Epoch Capabilities Index141.6989.67
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
ForecastBench60.2—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1375871
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1372—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1333836
LMArena Chinese1350836
LMArena French1363—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1291—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1357—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1376814
IFEval84%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1351851
LMArena Creative Writing1345864
LMArena Multi-Turn1376740
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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