Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Mercury and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.3 to 46.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 49.5% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 38.1 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1412 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1372 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1365 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena French | — | 1398 |
| LMArena German | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1355 |
Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1365 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Mercury and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 38.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mercury or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.