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Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.6 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4.6 leads 62.3 to 15.2.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
ProviderDatabricksxAI
Noometry Index25.556.9
Released2023-04-112026-08-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1749

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Coding7761465
DeepSWE—67.5%
FrontierCode—48%
CursorBench—41.4%
LMArena WebDev—1617
FrontierSWE—25.3%
SciCode—56.5%
WeirdML—67.3%
ALE-Bench—1,508

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
APEX-Agents—65.3%
GDP.pdf—17.2%
Vending-Bench 2—9,047

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts8041447
Epoch Capabilities Index89.67156.44
ARC-AGI-2—67.1%
SimpleBench—75.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—80%
ARC-AGI-1—87.5%
CritPt—19.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
EBR-Bench—30.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—48.5%
HellaSwag70.8%—
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Math8711423
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—31.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.2%
ProofBench—51%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—49.3%
LMArena Expert—1467
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Vision—1263
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.2%
Furniture Assembly—40%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Non-English8361420
LMArena Chinese8361480
LMArena French—1461
LMArena German—1431
LMArena Japanese—1376
LMArena Korean—1397
LMArena Russian—1422
LMArena Spanish—1404

Instruction Following Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following8141431

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Longer Query—1454

Writing & Preference Grok 4.6 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80)

BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGrok 4.6
LMArena Text8511428
LMArena Creative Writing8641428
LMArena Multi-Turn7401425

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Grok 4.6 better for coding?

Grok 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.5 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Grok 4.6 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.

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