# Gemma 2B vs Mercury

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-mercury
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 1 category and Mercury in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 307 | 199 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1322 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | — |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1239 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1282 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Mercury share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.