Model comparison

DBRX vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.4 to 14.9.

Side by side

DBRX and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
DBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderDatabricksAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.433.4
Released2024-03-272024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding DBRX leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding11321276
HumanEval+70.1%87.2%
MBPP+55.8%77%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%

Reasoning Too close to call

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11131251
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math11451251
LiveBench Math—46.6%
MATH Level 511.7%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert10761221
GPQA Diamond32.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English10711205
LMArena Chinese10681222
LMArena Russian10781228
LMArena French1096—
LMArena German1057—
LMArena Japanese990—
LMArena Korean993—
LMArena Spanish1064—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11121223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query11121251

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDBRXQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text11191230
LMArena Creative Writing11041174
LMArena Multi-Turn11111222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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