Model comparison
Mercury vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 22.4 to 17.5.
- Qwen3 Coder Next has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 34.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mercury or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.