# Mercury 2.5 vs Qwen3 Max

> Qwen3 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#82); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-qwen3-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mercury 2.5 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 37.6 to 22.4.
- Mercury 2.5 is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
- Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 260K.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 43.5 |
| Rank | — | 82 |
| Context | 260K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | $1.20 |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 301.65 | 370.45 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1456 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |

## Reasoning

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1448 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 82.1% |
| LMCA | — | 28.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.41 |

## Math

- Mercury 2.5: 22.4
- Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| ProofBench | 3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1447 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.1% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 72.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1457 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1479 |
| LMArena French | — | 1450 |
| LMArena German | — | 1463 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1397 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1463 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1420 |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1439 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury 2.5: —
- Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1446 |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury 2.5 better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#82); Mercury 2.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Mercury 2.5 or Qwen3 Max?

Mercury 2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 260K.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury 2.5 and Qwen3 Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mercury 2.5 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.