Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs Mercury 2
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Mercury 2 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mercury 2 leads 36.2 to 9.7.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | 2026-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 50K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1173 | 1391 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1171 |
| SciCode | — | 38.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.58 |
Reasoning Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1171 | 1362 |
| CritPt | — | 0.8% |
| 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 2: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1183 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
| GSM8K | 84.9% | — |
Knowledge Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | 1358 |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.3% |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |
Multilingual Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | 1331 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | 1190 | — |
| LMArena German | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | 1329 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
Long Context Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | 1330 |
Writing & Preference Mercury 2 leads
Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | 1355 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | 1289 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | 1358 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2 9B or Mercury 2 better for coding?
Mercury 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Mercury 2 share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.