Model comparison

Mercury vs Qwen1.5-14B

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.7

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 33.6.
  • Qwen1.5-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
MercuryQwen1.5-14B
ProviderInceptionAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.632.7
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked917

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Category by category

Coding Mercury leads

Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding13221138

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts12851113
Kagi LLM Benchmark21.6%—

Math Not comparable

Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math—1125

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert—1094
MMLU—68.6%

Multilingual Mercury leads

Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English12601095
LMArena Chinese—1147
LMArena French—1116
LMArena German—1043
LMArena Japanese—1019
LMArena Russian—1046
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Mercury leads

Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12391102

Long Context Mercury leads

Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query12661113

Writing & Preference Mercury leads

Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text12821128
LMArena Creative Writing11911091
LMArena Multi-Turn12821110

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mercury or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen1.5-14B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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