Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs DBRX

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 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 5 leads 86.2 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.9% for Claude Opus 5 and 32.9% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and DBRX specifications
Claude Opus 5DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index67.829.4
Released2026-07-242024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5721

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Coding15341132
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts15261113
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Math15311145
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
MATH Level 5—11.7%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
GPQA Diamond93.9%32.9%
LMArena Expert15571076
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Non-English15011071
LMArena Chinese15741068
LMArena French15191096
LMArena German15241057
LMArena Japanese1516990
LMArena Korean1521993
LMArena Russian15071078
LMArena Spanish15191064

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following15171112

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Longer Query15151112

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5DBRX
LMArena Text15071119
LMArena Creative Writing14911104
LMArena Multi-Turn14991111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than DBRX?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and DBRX share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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