DBRX Instruct vs Exaone 4.0 32B

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

Exaone 4.0 32B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 83 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Exaone 4.0 32B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.8 against 52.

Exaone 4.0 32B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DBRX Instruct is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Exaone 4.0 32B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Exaone 4.0 32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

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41%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
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31%
BrowseComp
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29%
OSWorld-Verified
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Coding

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70.1%
HumanEval
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48%
SWE-bench Pro
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Multimodal & Grounded

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36%
MMMU-Pro
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35%
OfficeQA Pro
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Reasoning

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36%
LongBench v2
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37%
MRCRv2
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Knowledge

Exaone 4.0 32B

DBRX Instruct

52

Exaone 4.0 32B

81.8

73.7%
MMLU
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52%
FrontierScience
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MMLU-Pro
81.8%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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46%
MMLU-ProX
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Mathematics

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AIME 2025
85.3%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DBRX Instruct or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B is ahead overall, 83 to 41.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DBRX Instruct or Exaone 4.0 32B?

Exaone 4.0 32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 52. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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