The phrase "merits comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that is worthy of being compared to another item or idea.
Example: "The new policy merits comparison with the previous one to evaluate its effectiveness."
Alternatives: "deserves to be compared" or "is worthy of comparison."
It has great acting and I think it merits comparison with the best American long-runners.
The $59,000 Premium version, loaded with the sport suspension, 18-inch wheels and about as many microprocessors as Bill Gates's house, arguably merits comparison with the $75,000 Audi S8.
Bridesmaids merits comparison to lads' comedy hit The Hangover, in that it contains a trip to Las Vegas which ends more like that film's recent spin-off, Due Date.
He may have meant only that he wanted that kind of fame, but his potently symbolizing way with colors — which, like scents, are a royal road from the outside world to our emotions — merits comparison to Matisse's, in a spectrum of hues that postdate the Frenchman's palette.
Said Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers: " 'After Earth' merits comparison with 2000's 'Battlefield Earth,' John Travolta's godawful film tribute to the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard".
cyrenaicus, while close to the Baynunah and Sahabi Tragoportax, also merits comparison to Siwaliks forms (Fig. 7).
In Montenegro, meanwhile, "hospitality to organized crime is so remarkable as to merit comparison to the legendary pirates' paradise of Tortuga".
Rivalled only by Dad's Army as Britain's most-loved sitcom, Fawlty Towers seems an unlikely candidate to merit comparison with the movies of Quentin Tarantino.
Although the series was his first as a photographer, the black-and-white pictures McDonough made of New Yorkers between 1968 and 1972 merit comparison to the street work of Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, or Diane Arbus.
According to a report issued in 2005 by the D.I.A., the anti-Mafia unit of the Italian federal police, Montenegro's hospitality to organized crime is so remarkable as to merit comparison to the legendary pirates' paradise of Tortuga.
It's a tad smaller in back than the S430 Mercedes-Benz (the only S-Class inexpensive enough, at $72K, to merit comparison with the 7 Series BMW), but the BMW has six cubic feet more trunk space, a huge front seat area and scads of headroom for almost any driver.
