Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

25.5

Rank #342 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads 46.7 to 15.2.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderDatabricksAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.531.9
Released2023-04-112024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked1743

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding7761292
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts8041271
Epoch Capabilities Index89.67129
HellaSwag70.8%84.8%
PIQA75.4%82.6%
WinoGrande61.8%82.3%
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Math8711283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%94.5%
MMLU26.2%85.3%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
BoolQ56.3%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English8361252
LMArena Chinese8361272
LMArena French—1280
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1256

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following8141254
IFEval—80.6%

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text8511269
LMArena Creative Writing8641221
LMArena Multi-Turn7401272
WildBench—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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