# Agents-A1-4B vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Agents-A1-4B and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/agents-a1-4b-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Agents-A1-4B and Mercury 2.5 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Agents-A1-4B has the lower published output-token price.
- Agents-A1-4B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InternScience | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 11 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Agents-A1-4B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44 (Estimated · #92/152)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BrowseComp | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GAIA | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 78.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 40.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 96.0% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 34.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Agents-A1-4B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.1 (Estimated · #73/151)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 29.6% | 38% | Mercury 2.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Agents-A1-4B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Agents-A1-4B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.6 (Estimated · #94/183)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierScience Research | 33.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Agents-A1-4B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#54/123)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1-4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 69.1% | 77% | Mercury 2.5 |
| IFEval | 94.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Agents-A1-4B and Mercury 2.5?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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