Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1260 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mercury share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.