Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B 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 42.8.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1322 |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | — |
| LMArena French | 1234 | — |
| LMArena German | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1239 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.