# Mercury vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

> Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-qwen3-235b-a22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 59.6 to 46.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 21.6% for Mercury and 69.4% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
- Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 43.5 |
| Rank | 199 | 91 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1445 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.6% |
| SciCode | — | 42.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 41% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mercury: —
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 52.1% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -11.34 |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | 69.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1433 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 11% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 9% |
| DTBench | — | 80.3% |
| LMCA | — | 29.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.85 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.7 |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1432 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 68.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 8.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 80.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 40.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1463 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1409 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1481 |
| LMArena French | — | 1445 |
| LMArena German | — | 1433 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1391 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1430 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1408 |
| IFEval | — | 83.5% |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1426 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 75% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
- Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

| Benchmark | Mercury | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1384 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1432 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1366 |
| WildBench | — | 86.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mercury or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.