Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Gemma 4 E4B Instruct (Google DeepMind · United States) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Gemma 4 E4B Instruct is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Gemma 4 E4B Instruct is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 132B MoE (36B active). Databricks Open Model License is bespoke — allows commercial use with acceptable-use policy and a 700M-MAU-style cap. Read the licence carefully; not Apache 2.0. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Gemma 4 E4B is an edge-optimised multimodal variant under pure Apache 2.0 with no prohibited-use carve-outs. Audio input (30s) and on-device deployment push GDPR biometric, AI Act emotion-recognition, and Art. 25 data-protection-by-design obligations entirely onto the integrator with no Google-side telemetry or kill-switch. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Domain-level summary |
| Origin | USA | United States |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 15/100 |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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