# Mercury 2.5 vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#328); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Mercury 2.5 leads 22.4 to 17.2.
- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mercury 2.5 accepts more context: 260K tokens versus 32K.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 26.8 |
| Rank | — | 328 |
| Context | 260K | 32K |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1127 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.38 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1110 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#328); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mercury 2.5 does, with 260K tokens against 32K.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.