Model comparison

DBRX vs gpt-oss-20b

gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.5

Rank #255 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and gpt-oss-20b in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where gpt-oss-20b leads 34.6 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 60.8% for gpt-oss-20b.

Side by side

DBRX and gpt-oss-20b specifications
DBRXgpt-oss-20b
ProviderDatabricksOpenAI
Noometry Index29.432.5
Released2024-03-272025-08-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.018
Output $ / M tokens—$0.09
Results tracked2134

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Category by category

Coding gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Coding11321306
SciCode—34.4%
WeirdML—40.9%
ALE-Bench—566.05
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
Terminal-Bench—3.4%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Hard Prompts11131274
Kagi LLM Benchmark—53.2%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—4%
DTBench—68%
LMCA—14.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.82

Math gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Math11451317
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—65.3%
Omni-MATH—56.5%
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
GPQA Diamond32.9%60.8%
LMArena Expert10761258
MMLU-Pro—74%
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%

Multilingual gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Non-English10711268
LMArena Chinese10681314
LMArena German10571255
LMArena Japanese9901244
LMArena Korean9931236
LMArena Russian10781278
LMArena Spanish10641267
LMArena French1096—

Instruction Following gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Instruction Following11121236
IFEval—73.2%

Long Context gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Longer Query11121250

Writing & Preference gpt-oss-20b leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Text11191287
LMArena Creative Writing11041201
LMArena Multi-Turn11111268
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—666
WildBench—73.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?

gpt-oss-20b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and gpt-oss-20b share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.

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