# DBRX vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 40.0 to 14.9.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 40.2 |
| Rank | 311 | 152 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1436 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.35 |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1431 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1432 |
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- DBRX: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1223 |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1442 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1409 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1415 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1415 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.