Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Llama 3.1 405B (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 405B is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Llama 3.1 405B is "Llama 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 Frontier-class 405B open model. Self-hosting requires serious compute (8×H100 minimum at FP8). Same Llama community licence caveats as the rest of the family. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Llama community |
| Commercial use | With caps | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 17/100 |
| Speed | — | 31 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $3.69/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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