Model comparison
DBRX vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
Mistral AISummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.2 to 33.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.
Side by side
| DBRX | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 36.0 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DBRX: —, Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1409 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 81.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 59.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1408 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
DBRX: —, Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1095 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1433 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1382 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1398 |
Long Context Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is DBRX or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral Medium share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.