Model comparison

Dolly 2.0-12b vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks

24.9

Rank #339 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 66.6 to 15.3.
  • Dolly 2.0-12b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Dolly 2.0-12b and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Dolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index24.954.7
Released2023-04-112025-11-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1767

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Coding7761482
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts8041481
Epoch Capabilities Index88.94152.96
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
ForecastBench—61.2
HellaSwag70.8%—
PIQA75.4%—
WinoGrande61.8%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250), Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Math8711475
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond—92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475
ARC (AI2) Challenge39.6%—
BoolQ56.3%—
MMLU26.2%—
OpenBookQA39.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English8361474
LMArena Chinese8361522
LMArena French—1492
LMArena German—1517
LMArena Japanese—1513
LMArena Korean—1449
LMArena Russian—1493
LMArena Spanish—1468

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following8141458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Not comparable

Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1472

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDolly 2.0-12bGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text8511479
LMArena Creative Writing8641482
LMArena Multi-Turn7401484
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Gemini 3 Pro share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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