# Dolly 2.0-12b vs Yi-Large

> Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dolly-2-0-12b-vs-yi-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Yi-Large leads 36.1 to 23.0.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 339 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)
- Yi-Large: 36.1 (#201)

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 776 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 47.2% |

## Reasoning

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.94 | — |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | — |

## Math

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | — |

## Knowledge

- Dolly 2.0-12b: —
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 26.2% | 79.3% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Yi-Large?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Yi-Large better for coding?

Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.1 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Yi-Large share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.