# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs Mercury 3

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

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

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Mercury 3 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.
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.10 / $0.35 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | 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
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 46.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | 89.2% | Mercury 3 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | Coming soon | 60.35% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Mercury 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Mercury 3?

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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- [LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse profile](/models/longcat-flash-lite-sparse)
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