Model comparison
Mercury vs Mistral
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mercury leads 65.2 to 52.6.
Side by side
| Mercury | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 29.9 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1162 |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1149 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1180 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1125 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1109 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1153 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Mistral?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Mistral better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Mistral share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.