Model comparison
Mercury vs Mixtral 8x22B
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.1 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 Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.7 to 24.2.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 27.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1150 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Mixtral 8x22B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.