# Mercury 2.5 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024

> Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has enough public results to be ranked (#274); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-june
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads 30.4 to 22.4.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 30.7 |
| Rank | — | 274 |
| Context | 260K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.2 (#275)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1093 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 19.9 (#229)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1088 |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 30.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1152 |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.1 (#240)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1051 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 26.0 (#277)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1033 |
| LMArena German | — | 1031 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 954 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 880 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1019 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.3 (#277)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.6 (#272)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1042 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.7 (#289)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1045 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1049 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has enough public results to be ranked (#274); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15.