# DBRX vs Mistral 7B

> DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where DBRX leads 24.3 to 8.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 311 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1082 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 36% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 42.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 3.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mistral 7B?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mistral 7B better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.