Model comparison
Dolly 2.0-12b vs Llama 3-8B
Dolly 2.0-12b and Llama 3-8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.5 vs 25.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Dolly 2.0-12b scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3-8B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-8B leads 37.5 to 15.2.
Side by side
| Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2023-04-11 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3-8B leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.4 (#332), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 776 | 1152 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#316), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 804 | 1133 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.67 | 116.45 |
| WinoGrande | 61.8% | 75.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| HellaSwag | 70.8% | — |
| PIQA | 75.4% | — |
Math Dolly 2.0-12b leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 27.3 (#251), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 871 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 39.6% | 82.8% |
| MMLU | 26.2% | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | 39.2% | 82.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| BoolQ | 56.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multilingual Llama 3-8B leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#296), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 836 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 836 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1173 |
Instruction Following Llama 3-8B leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.7 (#304), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 814 | 1127 |
Long Context Not comparable
Dolly 2.0-12b: —, Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-8B leads
Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.2 (#311), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Dolly 2.0-12b | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 851 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 864 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 740 | 1152 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Dolly 2.0-12b better than Llama 3-8B?
Dolly 2.0-12b and Llama 3-8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.5 vs 25.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Dolly 2.0-12b or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Llama 3-8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.0 versus 23.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Dolly 2.0-12b and Llama 3-8B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Dolly 2.0-12b has 17 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.