Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Mistral Small
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
Mistral AISummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 15.2.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Mistral Small leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | — |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 26.2% | 68.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Mistral Small?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Mistral Small better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Mistral Small share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.