# DBRX vs gpt-oss-20b

> gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-gpt-oss-20b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and gpt-oss-20b in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where gpt-oss-20b leads 34.6 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 60.8% for gpt-oss-20b.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 32.5 |
| Rank | 311 | 255 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.018 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1306 |
| SciCode | — | 34.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.9% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 566.05 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 3.4% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1274 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 53.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | — | 68% |
| LMCA | — | 14.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.82 |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1317 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 65.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 56.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 60.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1258 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1314 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1236 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1267 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1236 |
| IFEval | — | 73.2% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1250 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)

| Benchmark | DBRX | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1201 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1268 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 666 |
| WildBench | — | 73.7% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?

gpt-oss-20b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and gpt-oss-20b share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.