Model comparison

Mercury vs phi-3-medium 14B

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Mercuryphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderInceptionMicrosoft
Noometry Index37.629.7
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked913

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Category by category

Coding Mercury leads

Mercury: 38.7 (#170), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1322—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

Mercury: 17.5 (#293), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark21.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1285—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.23
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Not comparable

Mercury: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mercury: 41.6 (#206), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1260—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mercury: 65.2 (#224), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1239—

Long Context Not comparable

Mercury: 38.4 (#198), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1266—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mercury: 46.2 (#221), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1282—
LMArena Creative Writing1191—
LMArena Multi-Turn1282—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mercury or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mercury and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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