# Mercury 2.5 vs Palm 2

> Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Palm 2 leads 28.4 to 22.4.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 29.4 |
| Rank | — | 296 |
| Context | 260K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 995 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1010 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 994 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Palm 2?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Palm 2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.