# Claude Instant vs DBRX

> DBRX has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-dbrx
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and DBRX in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 29.0 |
| Rank | — | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 70.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1132 |
| MBPP+ | — | 55.8% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1113 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1145 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 11.7% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 32.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1076 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| 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

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1112 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1112 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | DBRX |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1119 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1111 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than DBRX?

DBRX has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and DBRX share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and DBRX has 21.