Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Mini leads 45.6 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 97.8% for GPT-5 Mini.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRXGPT-5 Mini
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.441.8
Released2024-03-272025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked2160

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Coding11321406
SWE-bench Verified—64.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—59.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—39.7%
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML—52.7%
ALE-Bench—799.77
AlgoTune—1.38
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench—34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.5%
Vending-Bench 2—-31.18

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Hard Prompts11131380
ARC-AGI-2—4.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—54.3%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—30%
EnigmaEval—8.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—34.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.52
ForecastBench—61

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Math11451378
MATH Level 511.7%97.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
ProofBench—9%
Omni-MATH—72.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond32.9%75%
LMArena Expert10761379
Humanity's Last Exam—19.4%
SimpleQA Verified—21.6%
MMLU-Pro—83.5%
Confabulations—13.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.9%
GPQA (HELM)—75.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision—1202
VPCT—40.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English10711363
LMArena Chinese10681385
LMArena French10961386
LMArena German10571366
LMArena Japanese9901341
LMArena Korean9931308
LMArena Russian10781362
LMArena Spanish10641355

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Instruction Following11121357
IFEval—92.7%

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Longer Query11121355
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148)

BenchmarkDBRXGPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text11191373
LMArena Creative Writing11041325
LMArena Multi-Turn11111363
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1313
WildBench—85.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-5 Mini share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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