Model comparison
Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#72); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 37.3 to 22.4.
Side by side
| Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 44.7 |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 260K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 2 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1488 |
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mercury 2.5: 22.4, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1473 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1489 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1534 |
| LMArena French | — | 1483 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1472 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1467 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1477 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2.5: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#72); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.