# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mercury 2.5 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Mercury 2.5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Inception |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 68.12 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $9.00 | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 51.8 (Supported · #44/152)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Finance Agent v2 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 61.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.2% | 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
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 57.6 (Supported · #34/151)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 48.68% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 86.9 (#6/48)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 33.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 59.4 (#14/18)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 77.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR 1M | 26.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 67.9 (Supported · #19/182)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 92.7% | 79.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| HLE | 40.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 86.9 (#35/121)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 38.966% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.583% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mercury 2.5?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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- [Mercury 2.5 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-mercury-2-5-preview)

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