# Kev 0.8B r15 vs Mercury 3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kev 0.8B r15 and Mercury 3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/decision-index-0-3-kev-0-8b-r15-vs-mercury-3
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Kev 0.8B r15 and Mercury 3.

## Summary

- Kev 0.8B r15 and Mercury 3 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Not listed | Inception |
| Type | Evaluated configuration | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Unspecified | Reasoning |
| Context | null | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.10 / $0.35 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kev 0.8B r15 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 30.2% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp+ | Coming soon | 55.18% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kev 0.8B r15 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kev 0.8B r15 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kev 0.8B r15 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kev 0.8B r15 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kev 0.8B r15 | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | Coming soon | 60.35% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Kev 0.8B r15 and Mercury 3 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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## Explore More

- [Kev 0.8B r15 profile](/models/decision-index-0-3-kev-0-8b-r15)
- [Mercury 3 profile](/models/mercury-3)
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