Noometry

Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 51.9 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index24.937.3
Released2023-04-112025-02-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding7761322
LiveBench Coding—47.1%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts8041324
LiveBench Reasoning—50.1%
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94—
ForecastBench—57.1
HellaSwag70.8%—
LiveBench—54.3%
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math8711309
Omni-MATH—37.4%
LiveBench Math—58.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
MMLU-Pro—72%
GPQA (HELM)—50%
LMArena Expert—1305
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1100

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English8361323
LMArena Chinese8361339
LMArena French—1346
LMArena German—1306
LMArena Japanese—1302
LMArena Korean—1325
LMArena Russian—1328
LMArena Spanish—1313

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following8141305
LiveBench Instruction Following—78.3%
IFEval—82.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query—1321

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text8511330
LMArena Creative Writing8641319
LMArena Multi-Turn7401307
WildBench—79%
LiveBench Language—34.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.

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