Noometry

Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs GPT-4.5

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

36.9

Rank #200 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 57.1 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index24.936.9
Released2023-04-112025-02-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1742

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), GPT-4.5: 41.8 (#102)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Coding7761397
Aider Polyglot—44.9%
WeirdML—39.4%
LiveBench Coding—75.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-4.5: 27.6 (#92)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
Cybench—17.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), GPT-4.5: 14.1 (#320)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts8041404
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94136.74
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—34.5%
ARC-AGI-1—10.3%
EnigmaEval—3.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—71.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—64.3%
ForecastBench—61.7
HellaSwag70.8%—
LiveBench—69%
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), GPT-4.5: 31.0 (#200)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Math8711412
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—37.8%
LiveBench Math—69.3%
MATH Level 5—78.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-4.5: 32.4 (#205)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
GPQA Diamond—68.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
Confabulations—13.6%
LMArena Expert—1394
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-4.5: 37.0 (#68)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Vision—1195
VPCT—45%

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), GPT-4.5: 52.7 (#78)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English8361413
LMArena Chinese8361421
LMArena French—1417
LMArena German—1457
LMArena Japanese—1416
LMArena Korean—1392
LMArena Russian—1419

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), GPT-4.5: 72.8 (#129)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following8141404
LiveBench Instruction Following—72.3%

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#150)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%
LMArena Longer Query—1406

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), GPT-4.5: 57.1 (#129)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-4.5
LMArena Text8511417
LMArena Creative Writing8641394
LMArena Multi-Turn7401444
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1258
LiveBench Language—61.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than GPT-4.5?

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and GPT-4.5 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.

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