Model comparison
DBRX vs Mistral
DBRX and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where DBRX leads 57.7 to 52.9.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DBRX | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1162 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1149 |
Math DBRX leads
DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1180 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Mistral leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
Multilingual Mistral leads
DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1095 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1143 |
Instruction Following DBRX leads
DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Mistral leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1154 |
Writing & Preference Mistral leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Mistral?
DBRX and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is DBRX or Mistral better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.3 vs 33.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.