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Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Mercury

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 6 categories and Mercury in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 46.2.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
ProviderGoogleInception
Noometry Index41.537.6
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked399

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Coding14531322
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Hard Prompts14411285
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—21.6%
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—
LMArena Math1433—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
LMArena Expert1435—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Non-English14271260
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Russian1443—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Instruction Following14201239

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Longer Query14351266

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteMercury
LMArena Text14351282
LMArena Creative Writing14201191
LMArena Multi-Turn14451282
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Mercury?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Mercury better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Mercury share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.

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