# Dolly 2.0-12b vs gpt-oss-20b

> gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-gpt-oss-20b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and gpt-oss-20b in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-20b leads 42.2 to 17.4.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 32.5 |
| Rank | 342 | 255 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.018 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
- gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1306 |
| SciCode | — | 34.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.9% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 566.05 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 3.4% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
- gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1274 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 137.82 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 53.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | — | 68% |
| LMCA | — | 14.5% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
- gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1317 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 65.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 56.5% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 60.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1258 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
- gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1314 |
| LMArena German | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1267 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
- gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1236 |
| IFEval | — | 73.2% |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1250 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
- gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1201 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1268 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 666 |
| WildBench | — | 73.7% |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?

gpt-oss-20b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and gpt-oss-20b share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.