Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Pixtral Large
Pixtral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#257); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Mercury 2.5 accepts more context: 260K tokens versus 128K.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 31.7 |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 260K | 128K |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 2 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: 22.4, Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Pixtral Large?
Pixtral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#257); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or Pixtral Large?
Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mercury 2.5 does, with 260K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.