Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and Phi-4 in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Phi-4 leads 40.5 to 15.2.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12b and Phi-4 specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
ProviderDatabricksMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.531.2
Released2023-04-112024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1737

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Coding7761231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Phi-4 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts8041220
Epoch Capabilities Index89.67130.42
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
HellaSwag70.8%—
LiveBench—41.6%
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Math8711246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
MMLU26.2%84.8%
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Non-English8361197
LMArena Chinese8361212
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following8141201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bPhi-4
LMArena Text8511217
LMArena Creative Writing8641182
LMArena Multi-Turn7401206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Phi-4 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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