Model comparison

DBRX vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 leads 32.6 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 64.9% for Phi-4.

Side by side

DBRX and Phi-4 specifications
DBRXPhi-4
ProviderDatabricksMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.431.2
Released2024-03-272024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked2137

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Coding11321231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts11131220
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
LiveBench—41.6%

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Math11451246
MATH Level 511.7%64.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
GPQA Diamond32.9%56.1%
LMArena Expert10761203
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Non-English10711197
LMArena Chinese10681212
LMArena French10961224
LMArena German10571222
LMArena Japanese9901158
LMArena Korean9931151
LMArena Russian10781209
LMArena Spanish10641234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following11121201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query11121217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXPhi-4
LMArena Text11191217
LMArena Creative Writing11041182
LMArena Multi-Turn11111206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Phi-4 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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