# Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | — |
| Rank | 242 | — |
| Context | 260K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 38.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.