Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.7 to 35.1.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1322 |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1239 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1282 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.