Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Dolly 2.0-12b
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Dolly 2.0-12b in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Amazon Nova Micro leads 39.5 to 15.2.
- Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2023-04-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 776 |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Dolly 2.0-12b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 804 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 89.67 |
| HellaSwag | — | 70.8% |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
| PIQA | — | 75.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 61.8% |
Math Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 871 |
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Dolly 2.0-12b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.8% | 26.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 39.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 56.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 39.2% |
Multilingual Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 836 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 836 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | — |
| LMArena German | 1192 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | — |
Instruction Following Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 814 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
| IFEval | 76% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Dolly 2.0-12b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | — |
Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 851 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 864 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 740 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Dolly 2.0-12b?
Amazon Nova Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Dolly 2.0-12b share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.