Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs DBRX

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and DBRX in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 61.9 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 32.9% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and DBRX specifications
Claude Opus 4.6DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index58.229.4
Released2026-02-042024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Coding15361132
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts15271113
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
GPQA Diamond90.5%32.9%
LMArena Expert15461076
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Non-English14891071
LMArena Chinese15511068
LMArena French15131096
LMArena German15021057
LMArena Japanese1484990
LMArena Korean1464993
LMArena Russian14971078
LMArena Spanish15101064

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following15231112

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Longer Query15201112
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6DBRX
LMArena Text15031119
LMArena Creative Writing15051104
LMArena Multi-Turn15131111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than DBRX?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and DBRX share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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