# Mercury 2 vs Pixtral Large

> Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-vs-pixtral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury 2 leads 53.8 to 32.9.
- Mercury 2 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 32.2 |
| Rank | 175 | 259 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1171 | — |
| SciCode | 38.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)
- Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | — |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mercury 2: —
- Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)
- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2 better than Pixtral Large?

Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2 or Pixtral Large?

Mercury 2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and Pixtral Large share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.