# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Qwen-7B

> Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#342); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-qwen-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | — |
| Rank | 342 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | — |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 106.83 |
| PIQA | 75.4% | 77.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 45% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| LAMBADA | — | 67.9% |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 51.7% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | 75.3% |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | 76.4% |
| MMLU | 26.2% | 45% |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Qwen-7B?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#342); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen-7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-7B has 8.