Model comparison

Mercury vs Qwen1.5-32B

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 34.2.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mercury and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
MercuryQwen1.5-32B
ProviderInceptionAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.630.5
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked921

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Category by category

Coding Mercury leads

Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding13221155
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts12851130
Kagi LLM Benchmark21.6%—

Math Not comparable

Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math—1155

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
LMArena Expert—1126
MMLU—74.4%

Multilingual Mercury leads

Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English12601106
LMArena Chinese—1177
LMArena French—1101
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1008
LMArena Russian—1073
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Mercury leads

Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following12391116

Long Context Mercury leads

Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query12661146

Writing & Preference Mercury leads

Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text12821137
LMArena Creative Writing11911083
LMArena Multi-Turn12821140

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mercury or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen1.5-32B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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