Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 33.7.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index29.036.4
Released2024-03-272025-06-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding11321373
WeirdML—35.2%
ALE-Bench—325.9
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—36.9%

Reasoning Too close to call

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts11131377
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
DTBench—62.8%
LMCA—18.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—133.93

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math11451373
Omni-MATH—48%
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Expert10761373
GPQA Diamond32.9%—
MMLU-Pro—53.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.3%
GPQA (HELM)—30.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1198
VPCT—30%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English10711369
LMArena Chinese10681404
LMArena French10951388
LMArena German10571390
LMArena Japanese9901359
LMArena Korean9931358
LMArena Russian10781373
LMArena Spanish10641396

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following11121366
IFEval—81%

Long Context Too close to call

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query11121373
Fiction.LiveBench—47.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130)

BenchmarkDBRXGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text11191379
LMArena Creative Writing11041366
LMArena Multi-Turn11111367
WildBench—81.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.

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