Model comparison
Grok 4 vs Mercury 2
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Mercury 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 40.5.
Side by side
| Grok 4 | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2025-07-09 | 2026-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 50K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 48 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 45.7% | 43.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1391 |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1171 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1362 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.44 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1415 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |
Multilingual Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | 1410 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | — |
| LMArena German | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1394 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1377 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1329 |
| IFEval | 94.9% | — |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1330 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1411 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1358 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
| WildBench | 79.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 better than Mercury 2?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4 or Mercury 2 better for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mercury 2 share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.