# DBRX vs GPT-4 Turbo

> GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gpt-4-turbo
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 24.3 to 9.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 311 | 292 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $10 |
| Output $/M | — | $30 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1268 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 73.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 18% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4 Turbo: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1251 |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | — | 61.6% |
| LMCA | — | 9.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.25 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1272 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 46.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1223 |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |
| MMLU | — | 81.3% |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1090 |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1276 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1260 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1249 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1254 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1267 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-4 Turbo share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.