Mercury vs PaLM 2 Chat
Compare Mercury by Inception against PaLM 2 Chat by Google AI, context windows of 32K vs 8K, tested across 21 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mercury
PaLM 2 Chat
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
PaLM 2 Chat is 20x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mercury
Input
$10.00
Output
$10.00
PaLM 2 Chat
Input
$0.50
20× cheaper
Output
$0.50
20× cheaper
PaLM 2 Chat is cheaper on both — 20× input, 20× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
33%
Mercury uses 4.3x more emoji
Mercury
PaLM 2 Chat
55%Vocabulary63%
40wSentence Length16w
0.39Hedging0.77
4.9Bold3.4
3.8Lists1.3
0.04Emoji0.00
1.04Headings0.07
0.03Transitions0.27
Based on 17 + 9 text responses
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