Model comparison
Mercury 2 vs Mistral Nemo
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mercury 2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury 2 leads 53.8 to 28.5.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mercury 2.
- Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2026-02-20 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 50K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.75 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1171 | — |
| SciCode | 38.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury 2: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
Reasoning Mercury 2 leads
Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | — |
| DTBench | — | 48.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.68 |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury 2: —, Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10.8% |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |
Knowledge Mercury 2 leads
Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 29.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |
Writing & Preference Mercury 2 leads
Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 881 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2 better than Mistral Nemo?
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mercury 2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2 or Mistral Nemo?
Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mercury 2 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and Mistral Nemo share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.