Model comparison
Mercury vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 34.3.
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 32.4 |
| Released | — | — |
| 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: 38.1 (#164), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | 1130 |
Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Mercury: 16.8 (#288), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1127 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1173 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1108 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.7 (#201), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1108 |
| LMArena French | — | 1109 |
| LMArena German | — | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1095 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.3 (#220), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | 1114 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.3 (#193), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | 1120 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#216), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1106 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | 1088 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.