Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs DBRX

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and DBRX in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4 leads 44.0 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 85% for Claude Opus 4 and 11.7% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and DBRX specifications
Claude Opus 4DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index43.129.4
Released2025-05-222024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5621

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Coding14421132
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts13991113
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Math13901145
MATH Level 585%11.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
GPQA Diamond76.3%32.9%
LMArena Expert13861076
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Non-English13621071
LMArena Chinese13861068
LMArena French13721096
LMArena German13911057
LMArena Japanese1331990
LMArena Korean1321993
LMArena Russian13921078
LMArena Spanish13891064

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following14061112
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Longer Query14221112
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4DBRX
LMArena Text13771119
LMArena Creative Writing13871104
LMArena Multi-Turn13961111
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than DBRX?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and DBRX share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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