Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mercury

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 6 categories and Mercury in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 17.5.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMercury
ProviderGoogleInception
Noometry Index54.137.6
Released2026-07-21—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked469

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Coding14911322
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Hard Prompts14851285
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—21.6%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Mercury: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Non-English14691260
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Instruction Following14661239

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Longer Query14741266

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMercury
LMArena Text14791282
LMArena Creative Writing14651191
LMArena Multi-Turn14811282
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mercury?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mercury better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mercury share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.

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