Model comparison
DBRX vs Mistral Large
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 50.3% for Mistral Large.
Side by side
| DBRX | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1277 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 59.5% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DBRX: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning DBRX leads
DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math DBRX leads
DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1262 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 50.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 51.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1232 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1268 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads
DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Mistral Large?
Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is DBRX or Mistral Large better for coding?
Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral Large share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.