Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mercury 2.5
Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-09-08 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 260K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2.5: 22.4
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mercury 2.5?
Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mercury 2.5 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 2.