# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.5 to 15.3.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 339 | 134 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 146.02 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1396 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1363 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1416 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1386 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1383 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1347 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1353 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1349 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.