Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Mercury in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.4 to 46.2.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 45 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1322 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |
Reasoning Mercury leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1285 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1239 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1282 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.