Model comparison

DBRX vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 47.6 to 29.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRX and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
DBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index29.034.8
Released2024-03-272024-12-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2154

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Coding11321351
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
WeirdML—25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts11131346
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
EnigmaEval—1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
DTBench—63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.36
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Math11451351
MATH Level 511.7%82.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—57.8%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond32.9%64.1%
LMArena Expert10761340
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English10711342
LMArena Chinese10681373
LMArena French10951390
LMArena German10571354
LMArena Japanese9901293
LMArena Korean9931314
LMArena Russian10781351
LMArena Spanish10641363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following11121336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query11121345
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text11191354
LMArena Creative Writing11041340
LMArena Multi-Turn11111350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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