# BTL-3 vs dots3-note Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for BTL-3 and dots3-note Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/btl-3-vs-dots3-note-preview
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: BTL-3 and dots3-note Preview share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- dots3-note Preview has the larger published context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Bad Theory Labs | Dots Studio |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 512K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 64.41 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 31 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 59.3 (Estimated · #25/152)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.2 (Estimated · #34/151)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 88.1% | 91.5% | dots3-note Preview |
| Codeforces | Coming soon | 3056.0 | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 75.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 49.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 66.1 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 19.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | Coming soon | 60.7% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 50.0% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 68.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #42/183)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 86.3 (#38/123)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between BTL-3 and dots3-note Preview?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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