# DBRX vs Mercury

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-mercury
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 33.6.
- DBRX has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 311 | 199 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.9 (#266)
- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | 1322 |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 21.4 (#222)
- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |

## Math

- DBRX: 24.3 (#269)
- Mercury: —

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

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#294)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.3 (#268)
- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | — |
| LMArena French | 1096 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.5 (#270)
- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | 1239 |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#258)
- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.6 (#275)
- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | 1282 |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.