# Mercury 3 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 3 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-3-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 3 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next has the lower published output-token price.
- Mercury 3 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 62.86 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.10 / $0.35 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 65.5 (Supported · #17/130)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp+ | 55.18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 55.7% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 51.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 51.6 (Supported · #42/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 46.3% | 58.7% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.1% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 79.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 87.7 (#8/55)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 59.3 (Supported · #53/186)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 91.7% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 91.2 (#22/148)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 76.8% | 81.3% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | 60.35% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 3 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Not yet. The models share only 3 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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- [Mercury 3 profile](/models/mercury-3)
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