Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Mercury 2

Mercury 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#167); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Mercury 2 Inception

38.8

Rank #167 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 33.2.
  • DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mercury 2 specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
ProviderDeepSeekInception
Noometry Index39.738.8
Released2024-05-072026-02-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—50K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.75
Results tracked1017

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141), Mercury 2: 33.2 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
LMArena WebDev—1170
SciCode—38.7%
WeirdML—43.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding—1391
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%—
ALE-Bench—785.58

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 23.0 (#170)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
CritPt—0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1362
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index124.78—
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 35.6 (#170)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.3%
LMArena Expert—1358
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 46.8 (#153)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
LMArena Non-English—1331
LMArena Chinese—1416
LMArena Russian—1303

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 70.4 (#161)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
LMArena Instruction Following—1328

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 40.4 (#149)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
LMArena Longer Query—1329

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mercury 2: 54.0 (#151)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mercury 2
LMArena Text—1355
LMArena Creative Writing—1289
LMArena Multi-Turn—1358

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#167); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Mercury 2 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mercury 2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.

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