Model comparison
Mercury vs Nova Premier 1.0
Mercury and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 23.0 to 17.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
Side by side
| Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 38.3 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Mercury and Nova Premier 1.0 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.