Model comparison
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 vs Mercury
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.7 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 scores higher in 4 categories and Mercury in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads 24.8 to 17.5.
Side by side
| Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 37.7 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-08-13 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 37.0 (#199), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1269 | 1322 |
Reasoning Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 24.8 (#159), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1255 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
Math Not comparable
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 35.4 (#185), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1265 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 33.9 (#200), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1238 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 41.4 (#208), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1257 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1262 | — |
| LMArena French | 1286 | — |
| LMArena German | 1273 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1213 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1261 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1279 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 65.5 (#220), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1245 | 1239 |
Long Context Too close to call
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 38.4 (#196), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 47.3 (#211), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1281 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1242 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 better than Mercury?
Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.7 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.