Model comparison
Gemma 3 1B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 1B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 21.1 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 4 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 7.2% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads
Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 19.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 1B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Mercury share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.