# DBRX vs GPT-4o mini

> DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gpt-4o-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4o mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 24.3 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 52.6% for GPT-4o mini.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 25.5 |
| Rank | 311 | 343 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1290 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 83.5% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 72.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 11.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 43.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 17.4% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 10.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 32.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 54.4% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50% |
| LMCA | — | 10.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 126.56 |
| LiveBench | — | 41.3% |
| PIQA | — | 88.7% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1267 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 52.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 36.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 91.3% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 37.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1235 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 8.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 60.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 37.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 36.8% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.7% |
| MMLU | — | 81.8% |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1066 |
| Video-MME | — | 64.8% |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 34% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1266 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1265 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1297 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1216 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1195 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1275 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1276 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 56.8% |
| IFEval | — | 78.2% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1289 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1286 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1268 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1285 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 67.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 873 |
| WildBench | — | 79.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 28.6% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than GPT-4o mini?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or GPT-4o mini better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.