Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DBRX

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and DBRX in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 91% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 32.9% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and DBRX specifications
Claude Opus 4.8DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index60.729.4
Released2026-05-282024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6521

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Coding14901132
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts14821113
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
GPQA Diamond91%32.9%
LMArena Expert15021076
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Non-English14501071
LMArena Chinese15071068
LMArena French14811096
LMArena German14721057
LMArena Japanese1440990
LMArena Korean1432993
LMArena Russian14741078
LMArena Spanish14661064

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following14761112

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Longer Query14831112

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DBRX
LMArena Text14611119
LMArena Creative Writing14541104
LMArena Multi-Turn14761111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than DBRX?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and DBRX share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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