Model comparison
Grok 4 Fast vs Mercury 2
Grok 4 Fast and Mercury 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.0 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 4 categories and Mercury 2 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 Fast leads 63.2 to 40.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 19.7% for Grok 4 Fast and 12.3% for Mercury 2.
Side by side
| Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2025-09-19 | 2026-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 50K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Grok 4 Fast: 32.3 (#264), Mercury 2: 33.2 (#250)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1160 | 1170 |
| WeirdML | 42.9% | 43.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1429 | 1391 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 29.3 (#80), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | 15.7% | — |
| Cybench | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1171 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Grok 4 Fast: 22.5 (#179), Mercury 2: 23.0 (#170)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1413 | 1362 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 66.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 48.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |
| DTBench | 82.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.21 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.5 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 36.1 (#126), Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1419 | — |
Knowledge Mercury 2 leads
Grok 4 Fast: 31.5 (#211), Mercury 2: 35.6 (#170)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 19.7% | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1411 | 1358 |
Multilingual Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 51.5 (#106), Mercury 2: 46.8 (#153)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1397 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1458 | 1416 |
| LMArena Russian | 1387 | 1303 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1383 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1359 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1414 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 73.4 (#116), Mercury 2: 70.4 (#161)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1388 | 1328 |
Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Mercury 2: 40.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1329 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 60.2 (#96), Mercury 2: 54.0 (#151)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1407 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | 1358 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 Fast better than Mercury 2?
Grok 4 Fast and Mercury 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.0 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok 4 Fast or Mercury 2 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.3 vs 33.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Mercury 2 share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.