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.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

GPT-6 Astra OpenAI

70.3

Rank #1 Confirmed

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 and GPT-6 Astra specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index24.970.3
Released2023-04-112026-09-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$50
Results tracked1751

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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)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Coding7761488
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)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-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)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Hard Prompts8041464
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94166.6
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
HellaSwag70.8%—
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math GPT-6 Astra leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), GPT-6 Astra: 93.4 (#1)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Math8711463
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)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-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) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 55.1 (#3)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-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)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Non-English8361431
LMArena Chinese8361495
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)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Instruction Following8141454

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, GPT-6 Astra: 44.7 (#57)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-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)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Text8511443
LMArena Creative Writing8641423
LMArena Multi-Turn7401457
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.

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