Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.6 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 87.6% for GPT-5.1.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRX and GPT-5.1 specifications
DBRXGPT-5.1
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.449.0
Released2024-03-272025-11-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked2163

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Coding11321454
SWE-bench Verified—68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66%
LMArena WebDev—1395
SciCode—43.3%
GSO—13.7%
WeirdML—60.8%
LiveBench Coding—72.5%
ALE-Bench—1,192
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench—47.6%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1199
Vending-Bench 2—1,473

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts11131457
ARC-AGI-2—17.6%
SimpleBench—53.2%
ARC-AGI-1—72.8%
CritPt—4.9%
Chess Puzzles—32%
EnigmaEval—11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—72.1%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.64
ForecastBench—58.1
LiveBench—78.8%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Math11451447
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.6%
Omni-MATH—46.4%
LiveBench Math—94.5%
MATH Level 511.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—31%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond32.9%87.6%
LMArena Expert10761470
Humanity's Last Exam—23.7%
SimpleQA Verified—48%
MMLU-Pro—57.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.9%
GPQA (HELM)—44.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Vision—1250
VPCT—58.7%
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English10711431
LMArena Chinese10681495
LMArena French10961450
LMArena German10571438
LMArena Japanese9901453
LMArena Korean9931401
LMArena Russian10781435
LMArena Spanish10641433

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following11121443
LiveBench Instruction Following—93.3%
IFEval—93.5%

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Longer Query11121447
CL-bench—23.7%
CL-bench Life—17.3%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5.1
LMArena Text11191443
LMArena Creative Writing11041427
LMArena Multi-Turn11111450
WildBench—86.3%
LiveBench Language—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-5.1?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GPT-5.1 better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-5.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.1 has 63.

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