# Claude Instant vs Dolly 2.0-12b

> Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-dolly-2-0-12b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Dolly 2.0-12b in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 18.8 to 14.6.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 24.9 |
| Rank | — | 339 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 776 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 88.94 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 804 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 70.8% |
| PIQA | — | 75.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 61.8% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 871 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 39.6% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 26.2% |
| BoolQ | — | 56.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 39.2% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 836 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 836 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 814 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 851 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 864 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 740 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.