DBRX Instruct
DBRX Instruct is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 32k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Advancing AI research and model development.
Cheapest of 6 routes · DeepInfra
About
DBRX Instruct, developed by Databricks, is a cutting-edge large language model designed for various natural language processing tasks. It excels in text summarization, question answering, information extraction, and code generation, utilizing a fine-grained mixture-of-experts architecture with 132 billion parameters. With advanced features like rotary position encodings, gated linear units, and grouped query attention, it performs exceptionally across multiple benchmarks, even outperforming some closed-source models. Trained on a vast 12 trillion token dataset, it supports contexts up to 32,000 tokens. Although primarily effective in English, its multilingual strength isn't fully explored. Users should be cautious as it may generate inaccurate or biased outputs.
DBRX Instruct is an open-weight model in the DBRX family. The structured metadata tracks a 32k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Microsoft Foundry, Databricks Foundation Model Serving, Together AI, and 3 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.6 input and $1.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DBRX Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 6Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.600 | $1.20 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $1.20 | $1.20 | Serverless |
| Databricks Foundation Model Serving | $0.750 | $2.25 | ServerlessProvisioned |
| Microsoft Foundry | $2.70 | $2.70 | Provisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(7)
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint
RouterNVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Advancing AI research and model development.
Cheapest of 6 routes · DeepInfra