# Llama 4 Maverick vs Mercury 3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Llama 4 Maverick and Mercury 3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/llama-4-maverick-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 Llama 4 Maverick and Mercury 3.

## Summary

- Llama 4 Maverick 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 | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meta | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 21.56 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 1 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.10 / $0.35 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 11.1 (Estimated · #123/130)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MazeBench | 0% | 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
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 13.8 (Estimated · #138/151)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 59.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 56 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 32.1 (Estimated · #147/186)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Llama 4 Maverick public-lane score: 50.3 (#93/148)
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | Coming soon | 60.35% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Llama 4 Maverick 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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- [Mercury 3 vs GPT-6.1 Sol](/compare/gpt-6-1-sol-vs-mercury-3)

## Explore More

- [Llama 4 Maverick profile](/models/llama-4-maverick)
- [Mercury 3 profile](/models/mercury-3)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)