Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.7 to 26.2.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mercury share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.