Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Mercury 2

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 81 to 65. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 95 against 68.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 95 to 66.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Mercury 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mercury 2 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

Mercury 2

63.7

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
63
87
BrowseComp
67
73
OSWorld-Verified
62

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

Mercury 2

41.1

91
HumanEval
75
58
SWE-bench Verified
46
58
LiveCodeBench
38
63
SWE-bench Pro
43

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

Mercury 2

68.3

95
MMMU-Pro
66
95
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Mercury 2

80.1

95
SimpleQA
82
93
MuSR
82
95
BBH
87
94
LongBench v2
77
96
MRCRv2
76

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

Mercury 2

57.2

99
MMLU
78
97
GPQA
78
95
SuperGPQA
76
93
OpenBookQA
74
81
MMLU-Pro
72
32
HLE
9
88
FrontierScience
69

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

Mercury 2

84

89
IFEval
84

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

Mercury 2

79.7

92
MGSM
81
85
MMLU-ProX
79

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

Mercury 2

80.9

99
AIME 2023
81
99
AIME 2024
83
98
AIME 2025
82
95
HMMT Feb 2023
77
97
HMMT Feb 2024
79
96
HMMT Feb 2025
78
96
BRUMO 2025
80
92
MATH-500
82

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 95 and 66.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 57.2. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 41.1. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 80.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 80.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 63.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 68.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 84. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Mercury 2?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 79.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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