Skip to content
Rival
How it worksPrivacyTerms
Explore all of Rival

Explore

  • Compare Models
  • All Models
  • Image Comparison
  • Audio Comparison
  • Image Generation
  • Best AI For...
  • Arena
  • API Pricing
  • Challenges

Discover

  • SubjectiveBench
  • Default Index
  • Research
  • Research downloads
  • Rival Kits
  • Find your AI taste
  • UI Glow-Up
  • VoiceLock
  • Cost Cutter
  • Agent skills
  • Benchmarks vs Vibes
  • Brief
  • Jailbreak
  • Model Updates
  • Provider Status
  • AI Creators

Connect

  • Methodology
  • Advertise
  • Partnerships
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • RSS Feed
  1. Home
  2. /
  3. Compare
  4. /
  5. MercuryvsQwen3.8 Omni Flash
Updated Sep 2026

MercuryvsQwen3.8 Omni Flash

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper than Mercury at $0.15/M vs $10/M input tokens.

Mercury and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecMercuryQwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input price$10/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$0.47/M tokens
Context window32K tokens1.0M tokens
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJun 2025Sep 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Mercury263 words
Golden Chickpea & Sweet Potato Stew Prep time: 10 min Cook time: 25 min Total: 35 min Ingredients (7 pantry staples) 1 cup canned chickpeas, drained & rinsed 1 medium sweet potato, peeled & diced (≈ 1 cup) 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ cup coconut milk (or any plant‑based milk) 2 tsp curry…
Read the full answer
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash175 words
Buttery Cloud Pancakes A soft, golden pancake stack made with just 7 pantry staples—no special mix-ins, no fancy tools, just simple comfort. Ingredients All-purpose flour Granulated sugar Baking powder Fine salt Milk Egg Butter Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 12 minutes Serves 2–3 Instructions In a bowl, whisk together…
Read the full answer

Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Mercury585 words
1‑Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan (Designed for absolute beginners – no fancy gear, no extreme diets, just doable habits that fit into a normal week.) 1️⃣ Focus Area: Balanced Nutrition Week Goal Simple, Beginner‑Friendly Actions 1 Get the basics down • Hydrate: Aim for 8‑10 cups (≈2 L) of water per day.
Read the full answer
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash712 words
A Simple 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Goal: Build sustainable habits—not perfection—around diet, exercise, and recovery/sleep. Time commitment: Small daily actions plus 2–3 short workouts per week. The 3 Key Areas Diet: Add more good foods before restricting Beginner rule: Focus on adding, not removing.
Read the full answer

Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Mercury628 words
Three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch # Claim Why it’s weak (evidence / reasoning) How to strengthen it 1 “Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy.”
Read the full answer
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash2,971 words
The three weakest claims—ranked by how likely they are to fail investor diligence—are: “94% accuracy… works with any language, any device.” “TAM: $180B” based on 3.5B smartphone users. “FDA clearance” consuming 40% of the Series A raise.
Read the full answer

Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Mercury829 words
1. Experienced Software Engineer (Distributed‑Systems Background) A large language model (LLM) is essentially a massive, highly parallelized neural network that learns to predict the probability distribution over the next token in a sequence.
Read the full answer
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash913 words
For the experienced software engineer A large language model is best thought of as a gigantic, parameterized probabilistic function that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.
Read the full answer
Our Verdict
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Mercury
MercuryRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs 21x less per token.

Slight edge
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Mercury
Input
$10.00
Output
$10.00
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Input
$0.15
67× cheaper
Output
$0.47
21× cheaper

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is cheaper on both: 67× input, 21× output.

Where to run it

1 host

Mercury

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Clouddegraded$0.15 in·$0.47 out·1M·99% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

Research

What we learned reading every model

FAQ

Common questions

Mercury is developed by Inception while Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is developed by Qwen. Mercury has a 32K token context window vs Qwen3.8 Omni Flash's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 9 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Mercury and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 9 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Mercury costs $10/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is $9.85/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Mercury and Qwen3.8 Omni Flash across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

Keep exploring

More comparisons

Against the newest arrivals

Mercury logoSolar Mini 4 logo
Mercury vs Solar Mini 4Landed Sep 2026
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoQwen3.8 Max Prime logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Qwen3.8 Max PrimeLanded Sep 2026
Mercury logoGLM 5.3 Prime logo
Mercury vs GLM 5.3 PrimeLanded Sep 2026
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoCommand A+ logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Command A+Landed Sep 2026
Mercury logoClaude Opus 5.5 logo
Mercury vs Claude Opus 5.5Landed Sep 2026
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoGPT-6 Luna Pro logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs GPT-6 Luna ProLanded Sep 2026
Mercury logoGPT-6 Sol Pro logo
Mercury vs GPT-6 Sol ProLanded Sep 2026
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoGPT-6 Luna logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs GPT-6 LunaLanded Sep 2026

Same lab, same size, long tail

Mercury logoMercury 2 logo
Mercury vs Mercury 2Version compare
Mercury logoMercury 2.5 logo
Mercury vs Mercury 2.5Same lab
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoQwen3.7 Flash logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Qwen3.7 FlashSame lab
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoQwen3.8 Flash logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Qwen3.8 FlashSame lab
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoQwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Same lab
Mercury logoQwen3 Coder logo
Mercury vs Qwen3 CoderCross-provider
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logoQwen3 Coder Flash logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Qwen3 Coder FlashSame lab
Mercury logoQwen3 Coder Next logo
Mercury vs Qwen3 Coder NextCross-provider

Model pages

Mercury logo
Mercury59 outputs, specs and price
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash logo
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash9 outputs, specs and price
Rival
How it worksPrivacyTerms
Explore all of Rival

Explore

  • Compare Models
  • All Models
  • Image Comparison
  • Audio Comparison
  • Image Generation
  • Best AI For...
  • Arena
  • API Pricing
  • Challenges

Discover

  • SubjectiveBench
  • Default Index
  • Research
  • Research downloads
  • Rival Kits
  • Find your AI taste
  • UI Glow-Up
  • VoiceLock
  • Cost Cutter
  • Agent skills
  • Benchmarks vs Vibes
  • Brief
  • Jailbreak
  • Model Updates
  • Provider Status
  • AI Creators

Connect

  • Methodology
  • Advertise
  • Partnerships
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms
  • RSS Feed