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Model comparison

DBRX vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.6 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.6 leads 54.0 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 90.8% for Kimi K2.6.

Side by side

DBRXKimi K2.6
ProviderDatabricksMoonshot AI
Noometry Index29.447.7
Released2024-03-272026-04-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked2151

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Coding11321488
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1509
SciCode—53.5%
WeirdML—55.9%
ALE-Bench—1,093
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
Vending-Bench 2—6,205

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Hard Prompts11131470
NYT Connections (extended)—87.2%
CritPt—8%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EBR-Bench—2.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—37.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.05

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Math11451475
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—57.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—25.6%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—72.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—96.1%
ProofBench—16%
MATH Level 511.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—39%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—14.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond32.9%90.8%
LMArena Expert10761491
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Vision—1283
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%
LMArena Document—1451

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English10711446
LMArena Chinese10681521
LMArena French10961471
LMArena German10571450
LMArena Japanese9901443
LMArena Korean9931427
LMArena Russian10781446
LMArena Spanish10641464

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following11121451

Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query11121468

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.6
LMArena Text11191455
LMArena Creative Writing11041434
LMArena Multi-Turn11111453
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1725
EQ-Bench 4—1202

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Kimi K2.6 better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Kimi K2.6 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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