# DBRX vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-qwen2-5-coder-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.4 to 14.9.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 311 | 245 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1276 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | 77% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1221 |
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1228 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1223 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

DBRX scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.