Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen1.5-7B
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 29.6.
- Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 31.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1107 |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1065 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1058 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1090 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1083 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen1.5-7B?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen1.5-7B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.