DBRX 8B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means
DBRX 8B scores 1243.0 on Arena Elo, placing it #503 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with DBRX 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 6 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 7 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 10 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
What this score means
On Arena Elo, DBRX 8B sits at #503 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 258.9 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts DBRX 8B below the midpoint.
Databricks models average 1303.5 on this benchmark. DBRX 8B is 60.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Databricks model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. DBRX 8B is 18.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 1243.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $0.82 per million input tokens, DBRX 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 4 7B | NVIDIA | 16384 | $1.05 | 56.9 |
| Codestral 7B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $1.05 | 57.0 |
| Command R+ 7B | Cohere | 8192 | $0.95 | 56.2 |
| Mistral Large 3 1.5B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $0.82 | 55.4 |
| DBRX 8B | Databricks | 4096 | $0.82 | 54.1 |
| Llama 3 Replicate 7B | Replicate | 32768 | $0.91 | 56.0 |
| Llama 3 Novita 8B | Novita AI | 16384 | $0.99 | 55.5 |
Other benchmarks for DBRX 8B
| 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 |
FAQ
What score does DBRX 8B get on Arena Elo?
DBRX 8B scores 1243.0 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.
How does DBRX 8B rank on Arena Elo?
It ranks #503 of 600 models, in the 16th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Is DBRX 8B good at Arena Elo?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the Arena Elo score calculated?
Arena Elo is a preference benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does DBRX 8B cost?
DBRX 8B costs $0.82 per million input tokens and $3.15 per million output tokens.