Model comparison
Mercury vs Wizardlm 70b
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mercury leads 41.6 to 29.6.
- Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Wizardlm 70b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 33.0 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1081 |
Reasoning Wizardlm 70b leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1079 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1116 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1078 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1052 |
| LMArena German | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1155 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1093 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1097 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1120 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1149 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1108 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Wizardlm 70b?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Wizardlm 70b share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.