Model comparison

Mercury 2.5 vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Mercury 2.5 leads 22.4 to 13.3.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury 2.5 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
Mercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderInceptionAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index30.232.6
Released2026-09-082024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window260K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.04—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked214

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 35.4 (#211)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Coding—1236
ALE-Bench301.65—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 22.9 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220

Math Mercury 2.5 leads

Mercury 2.5: 22.4, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 13.3 (#297)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.4%
ProofBench3%—
LMArena Math—1242
MATH Level 5—42.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.1 (#257)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond—46.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 40.1 (#217)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English—1236
LMArena Chinese—1249
LMArena Russian—1246

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 65.0 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Instruction Following—1233

Long Context Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#217)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query—1224

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mercury 2.5: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.8 (#218)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercury 2.5Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text—1256
LMArena Creative Writing—1231
LMArena Multi-Turn—1252

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury 2.5 better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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