Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Mercury 2.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury 2.5 leads 39.5 to 22.6.
- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1 for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
- Mercury 2.5 accepts more context: 260K tokens versus 33K.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 260K | 33K |
| Max output | 66K | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 4 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury 2.5 leads
Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| SciCode | 38.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Mercury 2.5 leads
Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Mercury 2.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-Coder-32B lists at $0.66 and $1.
Is Mercury 2.5 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Mercury 2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mercury 2.5 does, with 260K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.