Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.5

Rank #26 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 5 leads 69.4 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index54.524.9
Released2026-06-292023-04-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked5117

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1483776
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1540—
SciCode53.6%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37), Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1461804
Epoch Capabilities Index156.3488.94
SimpleBench60.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench92.5%—
LMCA50%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench61.1—
HellaSwag—70.8%
PIQA—75.4%
WinoGrande—61.8%

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21), Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1467871
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%—
ProofBench77%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
LMArena Expert1491—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—39.6%
BoolQ—56.3%
MMLU—26.2%
OpenBookQA—39.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Vision1275—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1431836
LMArena Chinese1475836
LMArena French1457—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1422—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1452—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1453814

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Longer Query1464—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1443851
LMArena Creative Writing1416864
LMArena Multi-Turn1454740
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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