Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads 31.7 to 22.4.
- Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 35.3 |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2024-06-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 260K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 2 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1209 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1202 |
Math Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads
Mercury 2.5: 22.4, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1216 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1214 |
| LMArena French | — | 1196 |
| LMArena German | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1148 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1203 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1225 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1225 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1214 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?
Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.