# Ling 3.0 Flash vs Mercury 3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash and Mercury 3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-mercury-3
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Ling 3.0 Flash and Mercury 3 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.
- Ling 3.0 Flash has the lower published output-token price.
- Mercury 3 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 45.11 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.10 / $0.35 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 33.4 (Supported · #87/130)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 65.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 44.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 73.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 73.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 50.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 21.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 31.7 (Supported · #91/151)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 72.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 43.5 (Supported · #107/186)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 85.0% | 89.2% | Mercury 3 |
| HLE | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.2 (#67/148)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.5% | 76.8% | Mercury 3 |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | Coming soon | 60.35% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 81.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ling 3.0 Flash and Mercury 3?

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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-vl)
- [Mercury 3 vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vl-vs-mercury-3)
- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)
- [Mercury 3 vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-fp8-vs-mercury-3)

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- [Ling 3.0 Flash profile](/models/ling-3-0-flash)
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