Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
Winner · 1/8 categoriesDBRX Instruct
41
1/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· DBRX Instruct
Pick 1-bit Bonsai 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
1-bit Bonsai 8B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
1-bit Bonsai 8B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 50 against 36.5. DBRX Instruct does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
1-bit Bonsai 8B gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | DBRX Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 41% |
| BrowseComp | — | 31% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 29% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | — | 70.1% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 48% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 36% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 35% |
| Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 8B wins | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| LongBench v2 | — | 36% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 37% |
| KnowledgeDBRX Instruct wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | — |
| MMLU | — | 73.7% |
| FrontierScience | — | 52% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 46% |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | — |
1-bit Bonsai 8B is ahead overall, 50 to 41.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 30. 1-bit Bonsai 8B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 50 versus 36.5. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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