Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mercury 2
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 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 0 categories and Mercury 2 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury 2 leads 53.8 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 50K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1171 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1391 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
Reasoning Mercury 2 leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1362 |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1358 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Mercury 2 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1304 |
Instruction Following Mercury 2 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1329 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1330 |
Writing & Preference Mercury 2 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1358 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mercury 2 share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.