# DBRX vs Mixtral 8x7B

> DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where DBRX leads 57.7 to 51.2.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 26.8 |
| Rank | 307 | 328 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1127 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.38 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 10% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 30.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1088 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1095 | 1165 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1110 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mixtral 8x7B?

DBRX is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.3 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mixtral 8x7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.