# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Falcon-7B

> Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-falcon-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | — |
| Rank | 339 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | — |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 94.49 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | 78.1% |
| PIQA | 75.4% | 80.3% |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | 67.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 28.8% |
| LAMBADA | — | 74.9% |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 6.8% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | 47.9% |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | 75.3% |
| MMLU | 26.2% | 35% |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | 51.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64.6% |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Falcon-7B?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Falcon-7B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-7B has 12.