Model comparison
Gemma 3n E4b IT vs Mercury
Gemma 3n E4b IT and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.3 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 5 categories and Mercury in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 50.1 to 46.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT and 21.6% for Mercury.
- Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 37.6 |
| Released | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1322 |
Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 31.5% | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1285 |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1251 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1246 | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1285 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1309 | — |
| LMArena French | 1330 | — |
| LMArena German | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1305 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1255 | 1239 |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1306 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1287 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1276 | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than Mercury?
Gemma 3n E4b IT and Mercury score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.3 vs 37.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and Mercury share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.