Model comparison
Mercury vs Palm 2
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Palm 2 in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mercury leads 41.6 to 20.9.
Side by side
| Mercury | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 30.0 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 994 |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1005 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1010 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Palm 2?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Palm 2 better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Palm 2 share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.