# DBRX vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 65.7% for Qwen3 32B.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 307 | 166 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.51 |

## Math

- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 65.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1362 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1057 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1095 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1331 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen3 32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.