Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 15.2.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1322 |
Reasoning Mercury leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | — |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Mercury share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.