ΔE 8.8, close: similar, with a visible difference side by side. Dioxazine Purple is more muted, cooler than Diabolic Plum. They are different kinds of paint: Army Painter Diabolic Plum is an opaque base/layer paint and Golden Dioxazine Purple is an ink, glaze or transparent paint, so they won’t behave the same on the model even where the colour is close.
Usually, if you are not matching paint already on the model. Close match (ΔE 9). Dioxazine Purple is more muted, cooler than Diabolic Plum. They are different kinds of paint.
The same difference applies the other way round: Diabolic Plum is more saturated, warmer.
ΔE is the colour difference between our two swatch estimates: under about 6 is close, over about 15 is loose. Real paints also differ in finish, coverage and how they thin, so test before you commit.
See Diabolic Plum on the colour wheel See Dioxazine Purple on the colour wheel
All matches: Diabolic Plum equivalents · Dioxazine Purple equivalents