Model comparison
Mercury 2 vs Qwen3.6 Flash
Mercury 2 and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mercury 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.1 to 36.2.
- Mercury 2 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $1.13 for Qwen3.6 Flash.
- Qwen3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2026-02-20 | 2026-04-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 50K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.75 | $1.13 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | 326.4 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1171 | — |
| SciCode | 38.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads
Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 35.2% |
| CritPt | 0.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 18% |
| DTBench | — | 77.1% |
| LMCA | — | 31% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.26 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury 2: —, Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 22.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 10.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads
Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 83.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2 better than Qwen3.6 Flash?
Mercury 2 and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mercury 2 or Qwen3.6 Flash?
Mercury 2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Flash lists at $0.19 and $1.13.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.6 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and Qwen3.6 Flash share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.