Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.6 to 38.9.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 34.8 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1351 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1346 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 135.36 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| DTBench | — | 63.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1351 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 26.2% | 79.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1340 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1390 |
| LMArena German | — | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1345 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.2 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.