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Mercury 2

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Verdict

Mercury 2 doesn't have enough test coverage for an overall SIscope score yet. Strongest at reasoning & knowledge, weaker at coding. Cheaper than 77% of priced models.

SIscope score
No score yet
60% coverage, needs 70%
Human-vote rank
#205
of 419 · score 1355
Price per 1M tokens, blended
$0.38
$0.25 in · $0.75 out
Context window
128K
128,000 tokens

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsno data yetReasoningMathno data yetChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding29
Agents & toolsNo data yet–
Reasoning & knowledge52
MathNo data yet–
Chat quality51
Following instructions50

What goes into each category · Compare with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

135013551360Oct 20: 1354.5 (rank #203)Oct 22: 1354.7 (rank #204)Oct 28: 1354.8 (rank #205)Oct 20Oct 28

Coding votes over time

WebDev arena, recent updates.

116511701175Oct 16: 1170.9 (rank #141)Oct 18: 1170.6 (rank #142)Oct 19: 1170.5 (rank #145)Oct 22: 1170.5 (rank #146)Oct 23: 1170.5 (rank #147)Oct 27: 1170.5 (rank #148)Oct 28: 1170.4 (rank #149)Oct 16Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

No Epoch AI runs for this model yet.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#205 of 41913551344–13653,191Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
#149 of 15211701146–1195954Oct 28, 2026
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
Not on this board yet

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

Input
$0.25
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.75
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.38
3 in : 1 out, per 1M
Context window
128K
max tokens per request
Speed
Coming soon
our own tests

List price from the OpenRouter models API (inception/mercury-2), Nov 4, 2026. Providers can charge differently.