Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.4 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Scout leads 66.0 to 38.9.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
Reasoning Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1266 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 129.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1286 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1236 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1253 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1256 |
| LMArena French | — | 1283 |
| LMArena German | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1277 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1248 |
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1265 |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Scout leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1281 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.4 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?
Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 23.0 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Llama 4 Scout share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.