Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Grok-3 mini
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and Grok-3 mini in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-3 mini leads 78.5 to 38.7.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok-3 mini leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1379 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 140.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Grok-3 mini leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1386 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 31.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1395 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1357 |
| IFEval | — | 95.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1372 |
Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1342 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| WildBench | — | 65.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Grok-3 mini?
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Grok-3 mini better for coding?
Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Grok-3 mini share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.