Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.5 leads 62.3 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 93.4% for Grok 4.5.
  • DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DBRXGrok 4.5
ProviderDatabricksxAI
Noometry Index29.455.0
Released2024-03-272026-07-08
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked2152

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Coding11321474
DeepSWE—53.8%
FrontierCode—42.4%
LMArena WebDev—1553
SciCode—54.1%
WeirdML—46.4%
ALE-Bench—1,309
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
APEX-Agents—56.2%
τ²-bench Banking—47.9%
PostTrainBench—23.4%
GBAEval—65.4%
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search—1213
Vending-Bench 2—3,887

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts11131462
ARC-AGI-2—52.6%
SimpleBench—70%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.9%
ARC-AGI-1—87.2%
CritPt—15.4%
Chess Puzzles—36%
DTBench—96.5%
LMCA—45.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—74.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—153.92

Math Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Math11451459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—57.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—24.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.8%
ProofBench—31%
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
GPQA Diamond32.9%93.4%
LMArena Expert10761466
SimpleQA Verified—48.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Vision—1288
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.3%
Furniture Assembly—22.5%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Non-English10711440
LMArena Chinese10681496
LMArena French10961456
LMArena German10571446
LMArena Japanese9901428
LMArena Korean9931404
LMArena Russian10781448
LMArena Spanish10641450

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Instruction Following11121446

Long Context Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Longer Query11121463

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42)

BenchmarkDBRXGrok 4.5
LMArena Text11191448
LMArena Creative Writing11041442
LMArena Multi-Turn11111456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Grok 4.5 better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Grok 4.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.5 has 52.

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