# DBRX vs Mercury 2

> Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mercury-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury 2 in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mercury 2 leads 36.2 to 14.9.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 311 | 175 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.75 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1391 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1171 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1362 |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Mercury 2: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.3% |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1329 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1330 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1358 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mercury 2 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Mercury 2 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.