Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Wizardlm 70b
Mercury 2.5 and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Wizardlm 70b leads 32.2 to 23.3.
- Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | 33.0 |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 260K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 4 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury 2.5 leads
Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 38.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1081 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
Reasoning Mercury 2.5 leads
Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1079 |
Math Wizardlm 70b leads
Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1116 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1078 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1052 |
| LMArena German | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1155 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1093 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1097 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1120 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1149 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1108 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Wizardlm 70b?
Mercury 2.5 and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mercury 2.5 or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?
Mercury 2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Wizardlm 70b share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.