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Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 vs Mercury 3

Mercury 3 leads the LLM Stats Score 36.1 to 12.6.

NVIDIA · Inception · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Mercury 3 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 36.1 to 12.6, ranking #98 overall.

In the 1 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Mercury 3 wins 1; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose Mercury 3

  • overall performance matters — it scores 36.1 and ranks #98 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 1 of 1 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
NVIDIA
Mercury 3
Inception
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
12.6
#272
36.1
#98
Reasoning
12.8
#264
34.8
#103
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
0 of 1
1 of 1
Input price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.35 / M
Context window
—
1,000,000

Individual benchmarks

7 reported for Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 · 12 for Mercury 3

1 shared

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Mercury 3 is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA).

Mercury 3 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Fri Oct 23 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mercury 3 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Mercury 3 specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

NVIDIA
Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Inception
Mercury 3
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Fri Oct 23 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 is licensed under Llama 3.1 Community License, while Mercury 3 uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Mercury 3

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 was released on 2025-03-18, while Mercury 3 was released on 2026-10-19.

Mercury 3 is 19 months newer than Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Mar 18, 2025

1.6 years ago

Mercury 3

Oct 19, 2026

0 days ago

1.6yr newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while Mercury 3's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Mercury 3's cutoff date.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Dec 2023

Mercury 3

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 and Mercury 3 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
✓ Preferred
Mercury 3
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FAQ

Common questions about Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 vs Mercury 3.

Which is better, Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 or Mercury 3?

Mercury 3 leads the LLM Stats Score 36.1 to 12.6. Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 is made by NVIDIA and Mercury 3 is made by Inception. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 compare to Mercury 3 in benchmarks?

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 scores MATH-500: 96.6%, MT-Bench: 91.7%, MBPP: 91.3%, Arena Hard: 88.3%, BFCL v2: 73.7%. Mercury 3 scores GPQA: 89.2%, AA-LCR: 77.7%, IFBench: 76.8%, MRCR v2: 75.5%, DeepSearchQA: 71.3%.

What are the context window sizes for Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 and Mercury 3?

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 supports an unknown number of tokens and Mercury 3 supports 1.0M tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 and Mercury 3?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (12.6 vs 36.1), licensing (Llama 3.1 Community License vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 and Mercury 3?

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 is developed by NVIDIA and Mercury 3 is developed by Inception.

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