Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-4.1 nano

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.7

Rank #322 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 41.8 to 29.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 70% for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRXGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.027.7
Released2024-03-272025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked2138

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.8 (#325)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Coding11321306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.3 (#98)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.6 (#344)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts11131286
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.62

Math GPT-4.1 nano leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), GPT-4.1 nano: 25.5 (#246)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Math11451274
MATH Level 511.7%70%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 nano leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#268)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond32.9%48.9%
LMArena Expert10761272
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 28.6 (#108)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.8 (#200)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English10711260
LMArena Chinese10681270
LMArena German10571288
LMArena Japanese9901199
LMArena Russian10781261
LMArena French1095—
LMArena Korean993—
LMArena Spanish1064—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), GPT-4.1 nano: 68.0 (#188)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Instruction Following11121267
IFEval—84.3%

Long Context DBRX leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#291)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query11121283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 nano leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.7 (#238)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text11191285
LMArena Creative Writing11041260
LMArena Multi-Turn11111277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-4.1 nano?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-4.1 nano share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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