1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs DBRX Instruct

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· DBRX Instruct

Quick Verdict

Pick DBRX Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

DBRX Instruct has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 41 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

DBRX Instruct's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 52 against 20.7. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BDBRX Instruct
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.041%
BrowseComp31%
OSWorld-Verified29%
Coding
HumanEval70.1%
SWE-bench Pro48%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro36%
OfficeQA Pro35%
Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 1.7B wins
MuSR45.1%
LongBench v236%
MRCRv237%
KnowledgeDBRX Instruct wins
GPQA20.7%
MMLU73.7%
FrontierScience52%
Instruction Following
IFEval63%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX46%
Mathematics
MATH-50034.4%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct is ahead overall, 41 to 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or DBRX Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 20.7. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or DBRX Instruct?

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.1 versus 36.5. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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