# DBRX vs GPT-5.2

> GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gpt-5-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.2 leads 59.2 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 91.4% for GPT-5.2.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 54.1 |
| Rank | 307 | 31 |
| Context | — | 400K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.75 |
| Output $/M | — | $14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)
- GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1447 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 73.8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 72.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1415 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 66.7% |
| GSO | — | 27.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 72.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,294 |
| AlgoTune | — | 2.05 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 64.9% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 55.9% |
| GDPval | — | 49.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 2.5% |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 83% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 32.2% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 81.6% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 89.7% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 41.1% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1207 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 75.3% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 3,591 |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)
- GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1445 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 52.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 45.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 73.3% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 83.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 86.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 49% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 10.4% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 23% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 23% |
| DTBench | — | 90.9% |
| LMCA | — | 43.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 153.45 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.1 |

## Math

- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)
- GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1439 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 67.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 31.7% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 72% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 96.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 15% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 40.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 18.8% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)
- GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 91.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1445 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 27.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 37.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.4% |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1268 |
| VPCT | — | 84% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 38.3% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1405 |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)
- GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1095 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1448 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1421 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1390 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1440 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)
- GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1417 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)
- GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1428 |
| CL-bench | — | 18.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)
- GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30)

| Benchmark | DBRX | GPT-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1402 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1458 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1703 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and GPT-5.2 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.