Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs DBRX

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 5 leads 66.2 to 24.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 32.9% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index54.629.4
Released2026-06-292024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked5121

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Coding14831132
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1541—
SciCode54.3%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
ALE-Bench1,463—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), DBRX: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts14611113
SimpleBench60.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench92.5%—
LMCA50%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.21—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Math14671145
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%—
ProofBench77%—
MATH Level 5—11.7%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
GPQA Diamond90.5%32.9%
LMArena Expert14901076
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), DBRX: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Vision1274—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Non-English14311071
LMArena Chinese14771068
LMArena French14601096
LMArena German14401057
LMArena Japanese1422990
LMArena Korean1411993
LMArena Russian14511078
LMArena Spanish14371064

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following14521112

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Longer Query14631112

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5DBRX
LMArena Text14421119
LMArena Creative Writing14161104
LMArena Multi-Turn14541111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than DBRX?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and DBRX share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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