Model comparison
DBRX vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Databricks
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
Side by side
| DBRX | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DBRX: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning DBRX leads
DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is DBRX or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.