Model comparison

Mercury 2.5 vs Phi-3.5-MoE

Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Mercury 2.5 Inception

33.5

Rank #242 Reported

Phi-3.5-MoE Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • Phi-3.5-MoE has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury 2.5 and Phi-3.5-MoE specifications
Mercury 2.5Phi-3.5-MoE
ProviderInceptionMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.5—
Released2026-09-082024-08-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window260K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.04—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked43

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Phi-3.5-MoE
SciCode38.5%—
ALE-Bench301.65—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Phi-3.5-MoE
CritPt0%—
PIQA—88.6%

Math Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Phi-3.5-MoE
ProofBench3%—
GSM8K—88.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Phi-3.5-MoE
BoolQ—84.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury 2.5 better than Phi-3.5-MoE?

Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Phi-3.5-MoE share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-MoE has 3.

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