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Mercury 2

deprecated by benchmark source
Inception · released 2026-02-20 · 1 offer

Context 128K tokens

Top 1 cheapest providers (Adjusted $/task)

Within the active global provider, residency and confidentiality filters.

#ProviderAdjusted $/task
1Inceptionvia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Inception's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-2/providers), collected 2026-11-03.

Composite

2 of 7 inputs6 radar axes: DesignArena's two boards share one

10.5

 Thin data · 2/7Based on only 2 of 7 Composite inputs — treat this rank as uncertain

includes −3.5 for its Benchmaxxing signal (from 14.0; why, switch off in Options)

dominance-adjusted from 17.6: a better-measured model that is at least as good on each of these inputs ranks above it

Benchmaxxing signal +3.5, light Benchmaxxing tag, uncertain: Based on only 9 comparisons and the 80 % interval reaches below zero — treat this tag as uncertain · light report →Based on only 9 comparisons and the 80 % interval reaches below zero — treat this tag as uncertain.

AA Coding v4.xCoding Agent v1.4AA Intelligence (est.)AA AgenticEpoch ECISoftware ECIDesignArenaAA Coding v4.x: percentile 37AA Intelligence (est.): percentile 43AA Agentic: percentile 32

AA Coding v4.x 31.1Coding Agent v1.4 —AA Intelligence (est.) 4.9AA Agentic 4.0Epoch ECI —Software ECI —DesignArena —/—

Radar: percentile among all models measured on each input; a gap means not measured.

Benchmark sheet

16 of 319 registered benchmark versions · bars show the percentile among all models measured on each benchmark.

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Agentic

  • AA-Briefcase14280 Elo

    AA-Briefcase published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests multi-week professional knowledge-work projects with linked tasks and large source collections.

  • GDPval-AA v230646 Elo

    GDPval-AA v2 v2 → · Published board — Tests professional knowledge-work deliverables across occupations using AA's Stirrup harness.

  • Terminal-Bench Hard (AA)6826.5%

    Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) pinned revision 74221fb → · Published board — Tests a pinned 44-task hard subset of terminal-based work using Terminus 2.

  • Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA)3227.3%

    Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA) v2.1 → · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 89-task verified refresh using Terminus 2.

  • Terminal-Bench v4.0 (AA)180.0%

    Terminal-Bench v4.0 (AA) v4.0 → · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 66-task release using mini-SWE-agent v2.4.6.

  • AA Agentic Index324.00

    AA Agentic Index published 2026-09-18 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis publishes one Agentic Index per model, measured on its primary configuration and relayed by OpenRouter's Benchmarks API; the value is attached at family scope on the deterministic representative. Artificial Analysis publishes this board without a version number; we keep the date each result was retained.

Coding

  • SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.11937.7%

    SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests scientific Python programming with scientist-annotated background information.

  • AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-273731.1

    AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-27 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis withdrew the Coding Index with Intelligence Index v5.0 (2026-10-28). These are the last v4.x values, frozen with their own date (2026-10-27).

Instruction-following

Knowledge

Long-context

  • GDP.pdf (AA)273.8%

    GDP.pdf (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests professional reasoning over long PDFs with AA document preparation and grading.

  • AA-LCR v1.14143.7%

    AA-LCR v1.1 v1.1 → · Published board — Tests reasoning across multiple long documents with corrected answer keys and grading.

Science

Tool-use

  • AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6201.7%

    AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6 → · Published board — Tests multi-app SaaS workflows through REST tools on a held-out AutomationBench split.

  • τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)6370.8%

    τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests dual-control telecom agents that coordinate tool use with a simulated user.

  • τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1289.5%

    τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests banking support agents that retrieve policies and change account state through tools.

Missing coverage · 303 benchmark versions

No result does not mean a zero, or that the model was never tested. Collection failures and disputed versions retain their distinct status.

Token offers by platform · 1 offer (Adjusted $/task)

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OpenRouter (1)

Prices via OpenRouter — what OpenRouter charges for each provider's endpoint, not the provider's own direct price. Source: openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-2/providers, collected 2026-11-03.

Inception
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