# Mercury vs Qwen-14B

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen-14B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 27.8.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 192 | 273 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)
- Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | 1072 |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)
- Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1027 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.8 |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

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

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- Qwen-14B: —

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

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)
- Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)
- Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | 1029 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)
- Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | 1022 |

## FAQ

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

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mercury or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.