# DBRX vs Mistral Large

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mistral-large
- 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 Mistral Large in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.1 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for DBRX and 50.3% for Mistral Large.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 311 | 263 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1277 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 59.5% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1262 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 50.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 51.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1232 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral Large share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.