Model comparison
Llama 3.2 90B vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 21.7 to 17.5.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 27.5 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-09-24 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 27.3% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | — |
| MMLU | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Mercury share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.