# Mercury 3 · Search Capability Leaderboard

* Search Intelligence Score: **63.6** (#25 in Search Intelligence)
* Without search: 28.1 · Lift from search +35.5
* Cost per 1K tasks: $43.4 (below the median score of 64.3, so not ranked on cost)
* Evaluated: Oct 14, 2026
* Lab: Inception Labs · Weights: Closed · Model id: inception/mercury-3

## Accuracy by benchmark

| Suite | With search | Without search |
| ----- | ----------- | -------------- |
| DSQA  | 81.8        | 41.4           |
| HLE   | 41.0        | 33.0           |
| WISER | 68.0        | 10.0           |

## Compared with

| Model                                               | Score | Lift  | Cost per 1K tasks |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ----- | ----------------- |
| Mercury 3                                           | 63.6  | +35.5 | $43.4             |
| [Kimi K3](/leaderboard/kimi-k3)                     | 64.2  | +33.6 | $266              |
| [Claude Haiku 5.5](/leaderboard/claude-haiku-5-5)   | 62.9  | +39.4 | $24.3             |
| [MiMo v2.6 Pro](/leaderboard/mimo-v2-6-pro)         | 64.4  | +34.7 | $76.5             |
| [Mistral Large 4.0](/leaderboard/mistral-large-4-0) | 64.4  | +43.0 | $136              |

Leaderboard last updated Oct 17, 2026. Methodology: /leaderboard#methodology