Model comparison

DBRX vs Llama 3.1-8B

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-8B Meta

23.0

Rank #352 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.1-8B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 24.3 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 22.9% for Llama 3.1-8B.

Side by side

DBRX and Llama 3.1-8B specifications
DBRXLlama 3.1-8B
ProviderDatabricksMeta
Noometry Index29.423.0
Released2024-03-272024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked2143

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Llama 3.1-8B: 20.2 (#340)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Coding11321195
HumanEval+70.1%62.8%
MBPP+55.8%55.6%
SciCode—13.2%
WeirdML—1.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Llama 3.1-8B: 22.5 (#131)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—25.8%
BALROG—15.1%

Reasoning DBRX leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Llama 3.1-8B: 14.9 (#321)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts11131175
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—50.9%
LMCA—5.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—116.57
PIQA—81.2%

Math DBRX leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Llama 3.1-8B: 10.2 (#317)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Math11451179
MATH Level 511.7%22.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.7%
Omni-MATH—13.7%
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge DBRX leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#307)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
GPQA Diamond32.9%27%
LMArena Expert10761144
MMLU-Pro—40.6%
GPQA (HELM)—24.7%
BoolQ—82.8%
MMLU—56.1%

Multilingual Llama 3.1-8B leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Llama 3.1-8B: 34.0 (#249)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Non-English10711148
LMArena Chinese10681151
LMArena French10961177
LMArena German10571144
LMArena Japanese9901061
LMArena Korean9931053
LMArena Russian10781158
LMArena Spanish10641169

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-8B leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Llama 3.1-8B: 58.9 (#258)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Instruction Following11121159
IFEval—74.3%

Long Context Llama 3.1-8B leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Longer Query11121182

Writing & Preference DBRX leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Llama 3.1-8B: 29.7 (#290)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Text11191187
LMArena Creative Writing11041154
LMArena Multi-Turn11111172
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—713
WildBench—68.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Llama 3.1-8B?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Llama 3.1-8B better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Llama 3.1-8B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.

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