Mercury 2 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Comparison

Comparing Mercury 2 and Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Mercury 2 outperforms in 2 benchmarks (AIME 2025, Tau2 Airline), while Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA).

Mercury 2 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 costs less

For input processing, Mercury 2 ($0.25/1M tokens) is 1.7x more expensive than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ($0.15/1M tokens).

For output processing, Mercury 2 ($0.75/1M tokens) is 1.1x cheaper than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ($0.80/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Mercury 2 is more expensive than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Mercury 2

Input tokens$0.25

Output tokens$0.75

Best providerInception

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Input tokens$0.15

Output tokens$0.80

Best providerFireworks

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 accepts 262,144 input tokens compared to Mercury 2's 128,000 tokens. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 can generate longer responses up to 131,072 tokens, while Mercury 2 is limited to 8,192 tokens.

Mercury 2

Input128,000 tokens

Output8,192 tokens

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Input262,144 tokens

Output131,072 tokens

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License

Usage and distribution terms

Mercury 2 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 uses Apache 2.0.

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

Mercury 2

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Mercury 2 was released on 2026-02-24, while Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 was released on 2025-07-22.

Mercury 2 is 7 months newer than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507.

Mercury 2

Feb 24, 2026

2 weeks ago

7mo newer

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Jul 22, 2025

7 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Mercury 2 is available from Inception. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is available from Fireworks, Novita. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.