Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DBRX Instruct
41
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B
~39
2/8 categoriesDBRX Instruct· Gemma 4 E2B
Pick DBRX Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.
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 reasoning, where it averages 36.5 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 37% to 19.1%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E2B 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. Gemma 4 E2B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.
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| Benchmark | DBRX Instruct | Gemma 4 E2B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 41% | — |
| BrowseComp | 31% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 29% | — |
| CodingDBRX Instruct wins | ||
| HumanEval | 70.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 48% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 44% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 36% | 44.2% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 35% | — |
| ReasoningDBRX Instruct wins | ||
| LongBench v2 | 36% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 37% | 19.1% |
| BBH | — | 21.9% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| MMLU | 73.7% | — |
| FrontierScience | 52% | — |
| GPQA | — | 43.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 60% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 46% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
DBRX Instruct is ahead overall, 41 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 37% and 19.1%.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 52. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 44. Gemma 4 E2B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.5 versus 19.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.2 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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