Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 32.1.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1173 | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | — |
Reasoning Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1171 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.83 | — |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1183 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
| GSM8K | 84.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | — |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | — |
| LMArena French | 1190 | — |
| LMArena German | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | 1239 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
Long Context Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | 1282 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2 9B or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.