# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-qwen3-32b
- 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 Qwen3 32B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 52.9 to 15.2.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 39.2 |
| Rank | 342 | 172 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
- Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1334 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
- Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| MMLU | 26.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
- Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
- Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1331 |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Qwen3 32B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.