# DBRX vs GPT-4.1 mini

> GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gpt-4-1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 33.6 |
| Rank | 311 | 240 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1349 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.01 |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1343 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 44.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 65.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1338 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1329 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1358 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1351 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1290 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1319 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1333 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-4.1 mini share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.