# DBRX vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gemini-1-5-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.4 to 33.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 32.1 |
| Rank | 311 | 261 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1294 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 74.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1296 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| DTBench | — | 59% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 70.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 23.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 57.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1279 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
| MMLU | — | 86.9% |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1302 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1297 |
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1296 |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.