# Mercury 2.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 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.
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 has the lower published output-token price.
- Mercury 2.5 has the larger published context window at 260K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | NVIDIA |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 33.77 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 12 (Supported · #119/128)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | 17.0% | Mercury 2.5 |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 34.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 53.9% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 70% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| WebArena | Coming soon | 50.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 16.1 (Estimated · #130/150)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 72.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #136/184)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | 88.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 81.1 (#58/148)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16?

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.

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