Model comparison

DBRX vs Gemma 4 31B IT

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 31B IT in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 60.5 to 33.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 75.8% for Gemma 4 31B IT.

Side by side

DBRX and Gemma 4 31B IT specifications
DBRXGemma 4 31B IT
ProviderDatabricksGoogle
Noometry Index29.443.5
Released2024-03-272026-04-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.09
Output $ / M tokens—$0.34
Results tracked2135

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Coding11321459
LMArena WebDev—1366
SciCode—43.4%
WeirdML—52.3%
ALE-Bench—925.5
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Hard Prompts11131448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—70.6%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Thematic Generalization—53%
DTBench—82.7%
LMCA—39.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—30.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.74

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Math11451465
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
GPQA Diamond32.9%75.8%
LMArena Expert10761465
SimpleQA Verified—10.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Vision—1277
LMArena Document—1425

Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Non-English10711431
LMArena Chinese10681476
LMArena French10961435
LMArena Russian10781460
LMArena Spanish10641444
LMArena German1057—
LMArena Japanese990—
LMArena Korean993—

Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Instruction Following11121433

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Longer Query11121446

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Text11191443
LMArena Creative Writing11041415
LMArena Multi-Turn11111452
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1368
EQ-Bench 4—1120

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Gemma 4 31B IT?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Gemma 4 31B IT better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Gemma 4 31B IT share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.

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