Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Astra in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 14.6.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 70.3 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2026-09-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $50 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), GPT-6 Astra: 70.5 (#3)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1488 |
| DeepSWE | — | 74.1% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1792 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 65.5% |
| SciCode | — | 56.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 93.6% |
| MirrorCode | — | 46.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,951 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 52.3 (#3)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 20.8% |
| BALROG | — | 68.3% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 15,515 |
Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1464 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 166.6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 95% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 98.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 98.5% |
| CritPt | — | 31.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 72% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 76.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 84% |
| DTBench | — | 97.3% |
| LMCA | — | 64.4% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), GPT-6 Astra: 93.4 (#1)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1463 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 97.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 95.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 54.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 75.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1486 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 55.1 (#3)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1280 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 49.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 80% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1468 |
Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), GPT-6 Astra: 54.0 (#53)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | — | 1467 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1412 |
Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), GPT-6 Astra: 76.6 (#37)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1454 |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 44.7 (#57)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1460 |
Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), GPT-6 Astra: 75.7 (#7)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1423 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1457 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2173 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than GPT-6 Astra?
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.3 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or GPT-6 Astra better for coding?
GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.5 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and GPT-6 Astra share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 51.