Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and QwQ-32B (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; QwQ-32B is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", QwQ-32B is "Apache 2.0".
| 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 32B dense reasoning model under Apache 2.0. Sweet spot for self-hostable reasoning: 4090-class GPU at 4-bit, single H100 at bf16. Chinese-origin caveats unchanged. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 20/100 |
| Speed | — | 33 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.74/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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