# Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) 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.
- Mercury 2.5 has the larger published context window at 260K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 63.72 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 9 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 59.9 (Estimated · #23/152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 57.7 (Estimated · #32/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | 47% | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 60.4 (Estimated · #37/182)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 41.4 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 23.103% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 4.167% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

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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