# Ling 3.0 Flash Sante vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash Sante and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-sante-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 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.
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante has the lower published output-token price.
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 33.57 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 12.1 (Supported · #123/132)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BrowseComp | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 90.8% | 34.0% | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 96.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 34.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 16.1 (Estimated · #133/153)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 71.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #139/187)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HealthBench Professional | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 51.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash Sante public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 81.1 (#60/152)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 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 Ling 3.0 Flash](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-mercury-2-5)

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- [Ling 3.0 Flash Sante profile](/models/ling-3-0-flash-sante)
- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
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