# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Llama 4 Scout

> Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-llama-4-scout
- 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 3 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Scout leads 65.8 to 38.7.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 27.7 |
| Rank | 342 | 330 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
- Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
- Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1266 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 129.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
- Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1287 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1235 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
- Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | — | 1282 |
| LMArena German | — | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1278 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
- Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1248 |
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1265 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
- Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1280 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 23.4 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Llama 4 Scout share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.