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DBRX
33
Stack Score
Best for
Best for enterprises on Databricks who want a frontier-class OSS model they can self-host or fine-tune.
At a glance
- Pricing
- open-source
- Setup time
- 2 days
- Learning curve
- steep
- Last verified
- 5/25/2026
What we love
- ✓Top-tier OSS model
- ✓Permissive license for enterprise
- ✓Tight Databricks integration
Where it falls short
- −Requires meaningful GPU horsepower
- −Smaller community than Llama
- −Best paired with Databricks stack
Pricing
2 tiers
Open-source
$0
perpetual
- ✓Apache 2.0
- ✓Self-host
Databricks Serving
Usage
per token
- ✓Hosted
- ✓Auto-scale
Overview
DBRX is Databricks' open-source LLM — a 132B mixture-of-experts model designed for enterprise fine-tuning and on-Databricks deployment. Strong on code, math, and reasoning at OSS cost.
Key features
- ●132B MoE architecture
- ●Strong code + math benchmarks
- ●Apache 2.0 license
- ●Databricks-native serving
- ●Hugging Face hosted
Best use cases
Enterprise RAG on Databricks
Self-host DBRX inside Databricks for sensitive-data RAG without sending tokens to a vendor.
Custom fine-tune
Train DBRX on company-internal text for domain-specific Q&A.
Integrations
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