Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B 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 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 27 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1322 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1239 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.