Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.0

Rank #307 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.5 to 33.7.

Side by side

DBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderDatabricksAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.037.7
Released2024-03-272025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked2125

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 32.3 (#262), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Coding11321413
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 20.5 (#218), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11131372
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 22.3 (#265), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math11451364
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#289), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert10761337
GPQA Diamond32.9%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 29.4 (#263), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English10711345
LMArena Chinese10681356
LMArena French10951394
LMArena German10571324
LMArena Japanese9901309
LMArena Korean9931307
LMArena Russian10781367
LMArena Spanish10641360

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 57.7 (#265), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11121356

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#253), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11121379

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#271), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkDBRXQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text11191356
LMArena Creative Writing11041333
LMArena Multi-Turn11111365

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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