Model comparison
Granite 4.1 8b vs Mercury
Granite 4.1 8b and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 8b scores higher in 5 categories and Mercury in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.7 to 30.1.
- Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 37.4 | 37.6 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 30.1 (#297), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1312 | 1322 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1192 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 25.7 (#143), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1293 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.1 8b: 36.4 (#166), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.1 8b: 36.1 (#174), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1309 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Granite 4.1 8b: 41.7 (#204), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1261 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1337 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 66.9 (#203), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1269 | 1239 |
Long Context Too close to call
Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#193), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1275 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 48.1 (#204), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1290 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1251 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1268 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.1 8b better than Mercury?
Granite 4.1 8b and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 4.1 8b or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 8b and Mercury share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 8b has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.