Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs DBRX

Claude 3 Opus and DBRX score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and DBRX in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 33.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 11.7% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and DBRX specifications
Claude 3 OpusDBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index29.529.4
Released2024-02-292024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4621

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Coding12641132
HumanEval+77.4%70.1%
MBPP+73.3%55.8%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning DBRX leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts12451113
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math DBRX leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Math12731145
MATH Level 537.5%11.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
GPQA Diamond47.2%32.9%
LMArena Expert12231076
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Non-English12581071
LMArena Chinese12481068
LMArena French12751096
LMArena German12581057
LMArena Japanese1204990
LMArena Korean1187993
LMArena Russian12801078
LMArena Spanish12461064

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Instruction Following12481112
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Longer Query12591112

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDBRX
LMArena Text12621119
LMArena Creative Writing12351104
LMArena Multi-Turn12751111
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than DBRX?

Claude 3 Opus and DBRX score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Opus or DBRX better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and DBRX share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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