Model comparison
Mercury vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads 23.4 to 17.5.
- Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 35.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-06-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 35.2 (#228)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1209 |
Reasoning Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 23.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1202 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1216 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 32.0 (#216)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.9 (#233)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1206 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1214 |
| LMArena French | — | 1197 |
| LMArena German | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1148 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.1 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1203 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#221)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1225 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nemotron 4 340b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1225 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1203 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1214 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.