Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 41.7 to 17.5.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 51.5 |
| Released | — | 2026-04-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.80 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1471 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1457 |
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.24 |
Math Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1478 |
Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1437 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1454 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1438 |
Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1457 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1456 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.