# Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

## Summary

- Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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 | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 53.41 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.1 (Estimated · #87/152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 28.96% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.6 (Estimated · #88/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 53.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 67.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 40.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.5 (Supported · #107/182)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 63.4% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 88.8 (#29/121)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 21.1 (#11/12)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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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