Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 30.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45% |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.3% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.1% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (38.7 vs 38.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.