# dots3-note Preview vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick dots3-note Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- dots3-note Preview leads overall 62.64 to 30.83.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 85.2 for dots3-note Preview and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IMOAnswerBench in Mathematics, with scores of 90.9% and 59.3%.
- dots3-note Preview also has the larger context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 62.64 | 30.83 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | 65.8% | dots3-note Preview |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 32.4 (Estimated · #129/168)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 71% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: dots3-note Preview
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 23.5 (#121/124)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | 52.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| IFEval | 93.9% | 85.6% | dots3-note Preview |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | 59.3% | dots3-note Preview |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, dots3-note Preview or ZAYA1-8B?

dots3-note Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between dots3-note Preview and ZAYA1-8B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 85.2 for dots3-note Preview and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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