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Dolly 2.0 12B

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Dolly 2.0 12B 851.1 Dolly 2.0 12B · 95% interval 837.9–864.3 · 3,412 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

836.34 rating

Confidence interval: 792.08 – 880.60

177 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

775.99 rating

Confidence interval: 743.53 – 808.46

396 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

863.42 rating

Confidence interval: 836.48 – 890.35

565 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

866.70 rating

Confidence interval: 852.05 – 881.35

2765 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

567.71 rating

Confidence interval: 546.55 – 588.88

2379 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

803.62 rating

Confidence interval: 780.04 – 827.19

615 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

809.35 rating

Confidence interval: 783.23 – 835.46

523 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

734.14 rating

Confidence interval: 690.32 – 777.95

233 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

808.94 rating

Confidence interval: 782.36 – 835.52

558 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

800.82 rating

Confidence interval: 772.64 – 828.99

589 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

839.91 rating

Confidence interval: 809.58 – 870.24

343 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

788.95 rating

Confidence interval: 765.71 – 812.19

824 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

872.18 rating

Confidence interval: 849.31 – 895.05

732 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

813.58 rating

Confidence interval: 792.87 – 834.28

899 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

870.94 rating

Confidence interval: 842.48 – 899.39

370 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

740.35 rating

Confidence interval: 705.08 – 775.63

356 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

835.49 rating

Confidence interval: 812.13 – 858.85

647 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Dolly 2.0 12B

851.10 rating

Confidence interval: 837.87 – 864.33

3412 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Dolly 2.0 12B
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

Dolly 2.0 12B

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT