# Mercury 3 vs Ripple-65B Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 3 and Ripple-65B Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-3-vs-ripple-65b-preview
- Last updated: November 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision: use the category and benchmark breakdown to decide which profile better matches your workload.

## Summary

- Mercury 3 and Ripple-65B Preview are tied on overall score, so the decision depends on category fit rather than the headline number.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA-D in Knowledge, with scores of 89.2% and 85.2%.
- Ripple-65B Preview is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Ricursive Intelligence |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 17 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.10 / $0.35 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 30.2% | 31.3% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| BrowseComp+ | 55.18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 36.4% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 71.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 46.3% | 44.3% | Mercury 3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61.4% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 39.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 85.2% | Mercury 3 |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 76.8% | 79.2% | Ripple-65B Preview |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | 60.35% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ripple-65B Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Ripple-65B Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 98.3% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.0% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Mercury 3 or Ripple-65B Preview?

Mercury 3 and Ripple-65B Preview are tied on overall score in the current BenchLM data.

### How many benchmarks does Mercury 3 cover on BenchLM?

Mercury 3 currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ripple-65B Preview cover on BenchLM?

Ripple-65B Preview currently has 17 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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