# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.8 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x7B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mixtral 8x7B leads 34.4 to 15.3.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 26.8 |
| Rank | 339 | 328 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1127 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1115 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | 118.38 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | 86.7% |
| PIQA | 75.4% | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | 77.2% |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | 87.3% |
| MMLU | 26.2% | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | 85.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1110 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.8 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Mixtral 8x7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.