Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Mercury

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Mercury Inception

37.3

Rank #192 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B 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 28.1.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Mercury specifications
Llama 2-7BMercury
ProviderMetaInception
Noometry Index28.637.3
Released2023-07-18—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked299

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Category by category

Coding Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302), Mercury: 38.1 (#164)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Coding10021323

Reasoning Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309), Mercury: 16.8 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Hard Prompts10091284
Kagi LLM Benchmark—21.6%
Chess Puzzles0%—
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index98.54—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231), Mercury: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Math1042—
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243), Mercury: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Mercury: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288), Mercury: 41.7 (#201)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Non-English9731259
LMArena Chinese973—
LMArena French969—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Russian995—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293), Mercury: 65.3 (#220)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Instruction Following10061238

Long Context Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282), Mercury: 38.3 (#193)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Longer Query9991264

Writing & Preference Mercury leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293), Mercury: 46.2 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMercury
LMArena Text10531282
LMArena Creative Writing10331186
LMArena Multi-Turn10291283

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-7B or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Mercury share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.

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