# Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemma-4-26b-a4b-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Mercury 2.5.

## Summary

- Gemma 4 26B A4B and Mercury 2.5 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 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 55.1 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 4 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 51.9 (Estimated · #42/152)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 96.0% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 34.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 41.4 (Supported · #109/151)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 44.1 (#41/48)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 66.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #120/182)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 82.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 17.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Gemma 4 26B A4B public-lane score: 88.7 (#30/121)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Gemma 4 26B A4B and Mercury 2.5 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.

## Related Comparisons

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- [Mercury 2.5 vs Gemma 4 31B](/compare/gemma-4-31b-vs-mercury-2-5)
- [Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Gemma 4 12B](/compare/gemma-4-12b-vs-gemma-4-26b-a4b)
- [Mercury 2.5 vs Gemma 4 12B](/compare/gemma-4-12b-vs-mercury-2-5)

## Explore More

- [Gemma 4 26B A4B profile](/models/gemma-4-26b-a4b)
- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
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