Model comparison
Mercury 2 vs Pixtral Large
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury 2 leads 53.8 to 32.9.
- Mercury 2 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2026-02-20 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 50K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.75 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1171 | — |
| SciCode | 38.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | — |
Reasoning Mercury 2 leads
Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mercury 2: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |
Writing & Preference Mercury 2 leads
Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2 better than Pixtral Large?
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2 or Pixtral Large?
Mercury 2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.