Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs Dolly 2.0-12b

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 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 DeepSeek-V3 leads 57.4 to 15.2.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and Dolly 2.0-12b specifications
DeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
ProviderDeepSeekDatabricks
Noometry Index39.525.5
Released2024-12-262023-04-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6017

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Coding1368776
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
SciCode35.8%—
WeirdML36.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct50%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Hard Prompts1365804
Epoch Capabilities Index135.9489.67
HellaSwag88.9%70.8%
PIQA84.7%75.4%
WinoGrande85.2%61.8%
SimpleBench27.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%—
ForecastBench59.1—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Math1373871
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
MATH Level 575.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%39.6%
MMLU87.2%26.2%
GPQA Diamond67.6%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
LMArena Expert1351—
BoolQ—56.3%
OpenBookQA—39.2%
TriviaQA82.9%—

Multilingual DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Non-English1358836
LMArena Chinese1391836
LMArena French1385—
LMArena German1374—
LMArena Japanese1333—
LMArena Korean1319—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1358—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Instruction Following1345814
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Dolly 2.0-12b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
Fiction.LiveBench50%—
LMArena Longer Query1352—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Dolly 2.0-12b
LMArena Text1375851
LMArena Creative Writing1364864
LMArena Multi-Turn1389740
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1472—
WildBench83%—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.

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