Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-4o

DBRX and GPT-4o score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4o in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.8 to 33.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 53.3% for GPT-4o.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRXGPT-4o
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.028.5
Released2024-03-272024-05-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked2172

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Coding11321297
HumanEval+70.1%87.2%
MBPP+55.8%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts11131281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
DTBench—64.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.97
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Math11451285
MATH Level 511.7%53.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
GPQA Diamond32.9%49.2%
LMArena Expert10761250
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4o: 33.9 (#85)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English10711283
LMArena Chinese10681277
LMArena French10951303
LMArena German10571282
LMArena Japanese9901257
LMArena Korean9931234
LMArena Russian10781286
LMArena Spanish10641292

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following11121278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context GPT-4o leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query11121289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4o
LMArena Text11191300
LMArena Creative Writing11041291
LMArena Multi-Turn11111302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-4o?

DBRX and GPT-4o score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is DBRX or GPT-4o better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-4o share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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