Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DBRX

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 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 Sonnet 4.5 leads 48.4 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 97.7% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 11.7% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DBRX specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index44.129.4
Released2025-09-292024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked7321

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Coding14891132
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), DBRX: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts14621113
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Math14491145
MATH Level 597.7%11.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
GPQA Diamond82.3%32.9%
LMArena Expert14821076
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), DBRX: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Non-English14251071
LMArena Chinese14591068
LMArena French14581096
LMArena German14271057
LMArena Japanese1390990
LMArena Korean1403993
LMArena Russian14371078
LMArena Spanish14571064

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following14591112
IFEval85%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Longer Query14761112

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5DBRX
LMArena Text14391119
LMArena Creative Writing14421104
LMArena Multi-Turn14651111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than DBRX?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DBRX share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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