# Amazon Nova Micro vs Dolly 2.0-12b

> Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-dolly-2-0-12b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Dolly 2.0-12b in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 15.2.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 25.5 |
| Rank | 294 | 342 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 776 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 804 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 89.67 |
| HellaSwag | — | 70.8% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 75.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 61.8% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 871 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 26.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 39.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 56.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 39.2% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 836 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 836 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 814 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 851 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 864 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 740 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.