# Mercury 2.5 vs Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-raw-phi-4-mini
- Last updated: October 1, 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 Mercury 2.5 and Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits.

## Summary

- Mercury 2.5 and Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits 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 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | null |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 35.18 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 2 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 11.3 (Supported · #109/119)
- Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 34.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 18.7 (Estimated · #124/144)
- Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 69 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| JevBench 1.4 | Coming soon | 37.96 | Coming soon |
| JevBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 15.22 | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 33 (Supported · #123/170)
- Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 77.7 (#56/124)
- Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Mercury 2.5 and Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Mercury 2.5 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-mercury-2-5-preview)
- [Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-preview-vs-raw-phi-4-mini)
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- [Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits vs GPT-6 Astra](/compare/gpt-6-astra-vs-raw-phi-4-mini)

## Explore More

- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
- [Raw Phi-4 mini direct logits profile](/models/raw-phi-4-mini)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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