# DBRX vs Qwen3.5 Plus

> Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-qwen3-5-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 46.0 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 84.8% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 42.3 |
| Rank | 307 | 103 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.79 |

## Math

- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | — |
| LMArena French | 1095 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | — |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.