Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 51.0 to 15.3.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 37.7 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Nova Premier 1.0: 22.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | — |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |
Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Nova Premier 1.0: 31.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
| LMArena Math | 871 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Nova Premier 1.0: 35.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | — |
Instruction Following Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.9 (#201)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#174)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.