Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-4 Turbo

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 24.3 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRX and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
DBRXGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.430.5
Released2024-03-272023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked2136

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Coding11321268
HumanEval+70.1%86.6%
MBPP+55.8%73.3%
WeirdML—18%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts11131251
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
DTBench—61.6%
LMCA—9.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.25
ForecastBench—59.4

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Math11451272
MATH Level 511.7%46.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%

Knowledge GPT-4 Turbo leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
GPQA Diamond32.9%46.6%
LMArena Expert10761223
Confabulations—28.4%
MMLU—81.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision—1090

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English10711245
LMArena Chinese10681242
LMArena French10961276
LMArena German10571259
LMArena Japanese9901194
LMArena Korean9931187
LMArena Russian10781259
LMArena Spanish10641260

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following11121249

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query11121254

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text11191272
LMArena Creative Writing11041269
LMArena Multi-Turn11111267

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-4 Turbo share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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