# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- 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 1 category and Mistral Small 3.1 in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 63.6 to 38.7.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 31.7 |
| Rank | 342 | 269 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.56 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1309 |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 127.48 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1257 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1253 |
| LMArena French | — | 1273 |
| LMArena German | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1283 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1264 |
| IFEval | — | 75% |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1299 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.