# Gemma 7B vs Mercury

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-mercury
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B 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 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 299 | 199 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1322 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1285 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1239 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1282 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Mercury share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.