Model comparison
Mercury vs Ministral 3B
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Ministral 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 25.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury: 38.1 (#164), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mercury: 16.8 (#288), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.08 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.7 (#201), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.3 (#220), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.3 (#193), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury: 46.2 (#216), Ministral 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Ministral 3B?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Ministral 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.