Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | — |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 260K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 4 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
Reasoning Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?
Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.