Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-3.5-turbo

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.1

Rank #345 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-3.5-turbo in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 22.3 to 6.0.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRX and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
DBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.023.1
Released2024-03-272023-03-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked2144

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.5 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Coding11321137
HumanEval+70.1%70.7%
MBPP+55.8%69.7%
WeirdML—3.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
METR Time Horizons—21.5%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.3 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts11131108
Chess Puzzles—0%
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.48
ForecastBench—50.4
WinoGrande—81.6%

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.0 (#321)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Math11451142
MATH Level 511.7%15.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.2%
GSM8K—57.8%

Knowledge DBRX leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
GPQA Diamond32.9%28%
LMArena Expert10761070
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.4%
BoolQ—87%
MMLU—71.4%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multilingual GPT-3.5-turbo leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.6 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English10711108
LMArena Chinese10681075
LMArena French10951117
LMArena German10571090
LMArena Japanese9901043
LMArena Korean9931019
LMArena Russian10781123
LMArena Spanish10641120

Instruction Following Too close to call

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), GPT-3.5-turbo: 58.1 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following11121119

Long Context Too close to call

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#249)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query11121121

Writing & Preference DBRX leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.4 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text11191125
LMArena Creative Writing11041092
LMArena Multi-Turn11111117
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—451

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.3 versus 23.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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