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Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.5 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4.5 leads 65.8 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
ProviderDatabricksxAI
Noometry Index25.555.0
Released2023-04-112026-07-08
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1752

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Coding7761474
DeepSWE—53.8%
FrontierCode—42.4%
LMArena WebDev—1553
SciCode—54.1%
WeirdML—46.4%
ALE-Bench—1,309

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
APEX-Agents—56.2%
τ²-bench Banking—47.9%
PostTrainBench—23.4%
GBAEval—65.4%
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search—1213
Vending-Bench 2—3,887

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts8041462
Epoch Capabilities Index89.67153.92
ARC-AGI-2—52.6%
SimpleBench—70%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.9%
ARC-AGI-1—87.2%
CritPt—15.4%
Chess Puzzles—36%
DTBench—96.5%
LMCA—45.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—74.4%
HellaSwag70.8%—
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Math8711459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—57.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—24.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.8%
ProofBench—31%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
GPQA Diamond—93.4%
SimpleQA Verified—48.3%
LMArena Expert—1466
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Vision—1288
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.3%
Furniture Assembly—22.5%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Non-English8361440
LMArena Chinese8361496
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1446
LMArena Japanese—1428
LMArena Korean—1404
LMArena Russian—1448
LMArena Spanish—1450

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Instruction Following8141446

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Longer Query—1463

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.5
LMArena Text8511448
LMArena Creative Writing8641442
LMArena Multi-Turn7401456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.5 has 52.

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