Model comparison
DBRX vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
DBRX and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 33.7.
Side by side
| DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 28.6 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DBRX: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning DBRX leads
DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.44 |
Math DBRX leads
DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | — |
| LMArena French | 1095 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
DBRX and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is DBRX or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.