Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Grok-2 (xAI · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Grok-2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Grok-2 is "Grok 2 Community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 xAI's first open-weights release. Commercial use allowed under the Grok 2 Community License with xAI's Acceptable Use Policy. Notable restriction: weights cannot be used to train other models (distillation ban). 500GB model, needs 8 GPUs with 40GB+. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-16 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Grok 2 Community |
| Commercial use | With caps | Yes (w/ AUP) |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 14/100 |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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