Model comparison
Mercury vs Yi-1.5-34B
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mercury leads 41.6 to 32.3.
- Yi-1.5-34B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 30.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-05-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1169 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.8% |
Reasoning Yi-1.5-34B leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1160 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1182 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 25.5% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 32% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1144 |
Multilingual Mercury leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1121 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1213 |
| LMArena French | — | 1156 |
| LMArena German | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1021 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1005 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1091 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1121 |
Instruction Following Mercury leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1139 |
Long Context Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1143 |
Writing & Preference Mercury leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Yi-1.5-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1173 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1135 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1153 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Yi-1.5-34B?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Yi-1.5-34B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.