# Mercury vs Qwen1.5-7B

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

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-qwen1-5-7b
- 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 Qwen1.5-7B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mercury leads 46.2 to 29.8.
- Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 192 | 270 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | 1107 |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1066 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | 1058 |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | 1090 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | 1061 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than Qwen1.5-7B?

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

### Is Mercury or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen1.5-7B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.