Model comparison

DBRX vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.4 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 73% for Llama 4 Maverick.

Side by side

DBRX and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
DBRXLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderDatabricksMeta
Noometry Index29.430.9
Released2024-03-272025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked2154

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Coding11321302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Hard Prompts11131281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.2
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Math11451299
MATH Level 511.7%73%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond32.9%67%
LMArena Expert10761259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English10711269
LMArena Chinese10681277
LMArena French10961259
LMArena German10571291
LMArena Japanese9901207
LMArena Korean9931203
LMArena Russian10781286
LMArena Spanish10641293

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following11121267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context DBRX leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query11121280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text11191287
LMArena Creative Writing11041267
LMArena Multi-Turn11111289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Llama 4 Maverick share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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