DBRX 8B: pricing, context window and benchmarks
DBRX 8B is a small open-weight model from Databricks. It offers a 4,096-token context window, costs $0.82 per million input tokens and $3.15 per million output tokens, and averages 54.1 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
DBRX 8B costs $0.82 per million input tokens and $3.15 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $1.40 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.09 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.82 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $3.15 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.09 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $1.40 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $3.97 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 61.1 | 511 | 15th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 49.5 | 531 | 12th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 37.4 | 540 | 10th | |
| HumanEval | 54.7 | 545 | 9th | |
| MATH-500 | 55.8 | 508 | 15th | |
| AIME 2025 | 45.7 | 491 | 18th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 38.6 | 545 | 9th | |
| IFEval | 64.8 | 534 | 11th | |
| TruthfulQA | 61.9 | 505 | 16th | |
| HellaSwag | 70.3 | 530 | 12th | |
| MMMU | 55.0 | 496 | 17th | |
| Arena Elo | 1243.0 | 503 | 16th |
What DBRX 8B is good for
DBRX 8B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $0.82 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.
Strengths
- Input price of $0.82 per million tokens is at or below the index median.
- Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
Trade-offs
- Context window of 4,096 tokens is small for long-document work.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
- Less reliable on open-ended reasoning and complex multi-step instructions.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-4.6 1.5B | Zhipu AI | 4096 | $0.92 | 54.7 |
| MiniMax-M2 1.5B | MiniMax | 16384 | $0.84 | 54.6 |
| DBRX 8B | Databricks | 4096 | $0.82 | 54.1 |
| Mixtral 7B | Mistral AI | 16384 | $0.70 | 54.1 |
| Mixtral Turbo 8B | Together AI | 4096 | $0.75 | 54.1 |
| Qwen3 1.5B | Alibaba Cloud | 4096 | $0.84 | 53.5 |
FAQ
How much does DBRX 8B cost?
DBRX 8B is listed at $0.82 per million input tokens and $3.15 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.086 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $1.40 per million tokens.
What is the context window of DBRX 8B?
DBRX 8B has a context window of 4,096 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.
Is DBRX 8B open weights?
Yes. DBRX 8B is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.
How does DBRX 8B score on benchmarks?
DBRX 8B averages 54.1 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #528 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1243.0.
What is DBRX 8B best for?
DBRX 8B is a small model. That makes it a good fit for classification, extraction, routing, summarization and other high-volume jobs where latency and cost dominate. It is not the right pick for open-ended frontier reasoning, but at $0.82 per million input tokens it can handle a large share of production traffic.