Model comparison

DBRX vs GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

50.9

Rank #38 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5.2 leads 57.1 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 91.9% for GLM-5.2.

Side by side

DBRX and GLM-5.2 specifications
DBRXGLM-5.2
ProviderDatabricksZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index29.050.9
Released2024-03-272026-06-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked2150

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), GLM-5.2: 50.9 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Coding11321484
SWE-bench Verified—78.7%
DeepSWE—43.8%
FrontierCode—24.5%
LMArena WebDev—1604
SciCode—50.5%
WeirdML—70.1%
ALE-Bench—1,047
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GLM-5.2: 31.6 (#63)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—31.7%
GBAEval—0%
Vending-Bench 2—8,314

Reasoning GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), GLM-5.2: 42.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Hard Prompts11131480
ARC-AGI-2—22.8%
SimpleBench—58.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.3%
ARC-AGI-1—77%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—21%
EBR-Bench—9.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—93.6%
LMCA—45.8%
Surface Evolver Bench—55.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.76

Math GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), GLM-5.2: 55.4 (#35)

Knowledge GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#36)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
GPQA Diamond32.9%91.9%
LMArena Expert10761484
SimpleQA Verified—34.2%

Multilingual GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), GLM-5.2: 56.0 (#25)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Non-English10711459
LMArena Chinese10681518
LMArena French10951476
LMArena German10571470
LMArena Japanese9901451
LMArena Korean9931445
LMArena Russian10781467
LMArena Spanish10641477

Instruction Following GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), GLM-5.2: 77.1 (#32)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following11121465

Long Context GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Longer Query11121479

Writing & Preference GLM-5.2 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), GLM-5.2: 70.7 (#20)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGLM-5.2
LMArena Text11191470
LMArena Creative Writing11041465
LMArena Multi-Turn11111468
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1757
EQ-Bench 4—1222

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GLM-5.2?

GLM-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GLM-5.2 better for coding?

GLM-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GLM-5.2 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.2 has 50.

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