Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 28.2.
- Codellama 34b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 37.6 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | 1239 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.