Model comparison
Mercury vs Pixtral Large
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 32.9.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 32.2 |
| Released | — | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mercury: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Pixtral Large?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.