# Mercury 3 vs Soofi S 30B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 3 and Soofi S 30B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-3-vs-soofi-s-30b-a3b
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 3 and Soofi S 30B-A3B 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.
- Soofi S 30B-A3B has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Soofi Project |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 8 |
| 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
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp+ | 55.18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 46.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BBH | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| DROP | Coming soon | 66.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 43.4% | Mercury 3 |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 43.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 51.4% | Coming soon |
| AGIEval | Coming soon | 66.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 76.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | 60.35% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Soofi S 30B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Soofi S 30B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 3 and Soofi S 30B-A3B?

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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- [Mercury 3 profile](/models/mercury-3)
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