# Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen-14B

> Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen-14B leads 28.7 to 22.4.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 273 |
| Context | 260K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1072 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.8 |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1029 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen-14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.