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Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Mercury 2.5

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mercury 2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Mercury 2.5 Inception

33.5

Rank #242 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury 2.5 leads 39.5 to 34.4.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
ProviderGoogleInception
Noometry Index33.233.5
Released2024-05-142026-09-08
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—260K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked424

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Category by category

Coding Mercury 2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
SciCode—38.5%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
ALE-Bench—301.65
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Mercury 2.5 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
ProofBench—3%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Mercury 2.5: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Mercury 2.5
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Mercury 2.5?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mercury 2.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Mercury 2.5 better for coding?

Mercury 2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Mercury 2.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 4.

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