# Mercury 2.5 vs Pixtral Large

> Pixtral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#257); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Mercury 2.5 accepts more context: 260K tokens versus 128K.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 31.7 |
| Rank | — | 257 |
| Context | 260K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#257); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or Pixtral Large?

Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mercury 2.5 does, with 260K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Pixtral Large share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.