Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.0

Rank #222 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 14B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 14B leads 36.7 to 23.0.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen3 14B specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
ProviderDatabricksAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.935.0
Released2023-04-112025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked1712

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LMArena Coding776—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94138.23
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts804—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
HellaSwag70.8%—
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LMArena Math871—

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English836—
LMArena Chinese836—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following814—

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bQwen3 14B
LMArena Text851—
LMArena Creative Writing864—
LMArena Multi-Turn740—

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen3 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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