Model comparison
DBRX vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 33.6.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DBRX | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1322 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Reasoning DBRX leads
DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
Math Not comparable
DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | — |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1239 |
Long Context Mercury leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is DBRX or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.