Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DBRX

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 4.6 leads 51.7 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.4% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 32.9% for DBRX.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
ProviderAnthropicDatabricks
Noometry Index50.329.4
Released2026-02-172024-03-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5721

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), DBRX: 32.9 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Coding15041132
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—
HumanEval+—70.1%
MBPP+—55.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), DBRX: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45), DBRX: 21.4 (#222)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Hard Prompts14841113
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.24—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), DBRX: 24.3 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Math14621145
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
MATH Level 5—11.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), DBRX: 14.9 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
GPQA Diamond87.4%32.9%
LMArena Expert15001076
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), DBRX: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), DBRX: 29.3 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Non-English14401071
LMArena Chinese14911068
LMArena French14651096
LMArena German14281057
LMArena Japanese1420990
LMArena Korean1411993
LMArena Russian14401078
LMArena Spanish14641064

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), DBRX: 57.5 (#270)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Instruction Following14751112

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), DBRX: 33.7 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Longer Query14791112

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), DBRX: 33.6 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6DBRX
LMArena Text14581119
LMArena Creative Writing14351104
LMArena Multi-Turn14641111
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than DBRX?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or DBRX better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DBRX share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.

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