Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen Plus
Mercury and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen Plus in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 17.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 63.3% for Qwen Plus.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 37.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1328 |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1317 |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1328 |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1323 |
Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1303 |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1336 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen Plus?
Mercury and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mercury or Qwen Plus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (38.7 vs 38.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen Plus share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.