Model comparison
DBRX vs Mercury 2
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
DatabricksSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury 2 in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mercury 2 leads 36.2 to 14.9.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DBRX | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-03-27 | 2026-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 50K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1391 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1171 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |
Reasoning Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1362 |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |
Math Not comparable
DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.3% |
Multilingual Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1329 |
Long Context Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1330 |
Writing & Preference Mercury 2 leads
DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)
| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1358 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DBRX better than Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is DBRX or Mercury 2 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mercury 2 share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.