As of October 20, 2026, Inception Mercury 2.5 ranks #139 of 213 models overall with 12.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Inception Mercury 2.5 costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens. It was released on September 8, 2026.
Its output price ranks 23 of 349 priced models, counting from the cheapest.
Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...
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No coding benchmark has measured this model, so there is no index. We do not estimate one from its price, its maker or its siblings. How it is weighted
Not measured on SWE-bench Lite, SWE-bench (full test set), SWE-bench Multimodal, SWE-bench Multilingual, AA Coding Index, LiveCodeBench (Vals AI), SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI), ProgramBench (Vals AI), SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI), Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI), LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run), Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run), Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, FrontierCode, FrontierSWE, GSO-Bench, WeirdML, MirrorCode, Cybench, LMArena Text: coding, LMArena Text: software and IT, LMArena WebDev: React, LMArena WebDev: HTML, LMArena WebDev: from an image
Not measured on Epoch Capabilities Index
Not measured on AA Agentic Index, Design Arena: agents building web apps, Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps, Design Arena: agents building mobile apps, Design Arena: agents building Android apps, Design Arena: agents building Godot games, Design Arena: agents building games, Design Arena: HTML slides, Design Arena: PowerPoint slides, Design Arena: spreadsheets, LiveBench research, LiveBench browser, LiveBench long agentic, SREBench (Vals AI), Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI), BioMysteryBench (Vals AI), Vals Science Index, Time Horizon Index (Vals AI), CUA-bench (Vals AI), Robo-bench (Vals AI), τ²-Bench Telecom, APEX-Agents, METR time horizons, Remote Labor Index, GDPval, OSWorld 2.0, BALROG, DeepResearch Bench, PostTrainBench, TheAgentCompany, OSWorld, SpireClimb, Vending-Bench 2, LMArena Search
Not measured on GPQA Diamond, LiveBench reasoning, MysteryMechanism (Vals AI), MMMU Pro (Vals AI), GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run), GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), ARC-AGI, ARC-AGI-2, Humanity's Last Exam, SimpleBench, Chess puzzles, Mystery game puzzles, EBR-bench, VPCT, BIG-Bench Hard, LMArena Text: hard prompts, LMArena Text: expert, LMArena Text: hard prompts in English, LMArena Vision: diagrams, LMArena Vision: homework
Not measured on AIME, MATH 500 (Vals AI), MGSM (Vals AI), AA Math Index, AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run), OTIS Mock AIME, FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3, FrontierMath, tier 4, MATH level 5, GSM8K, LMArena Text: math, LMArena Text: mathematical work
Not measured on MMLU Pro, CaseLaw (Vals AI), CorpFin (Vals AI), TaxEval (Vals AI), MortgageTax (Vals AI), MedQA (Vals AI), MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run), SimpleQA Verified, MMLU, GeoBench, AI2 Reasoning Challenge, LMArena Text: science, LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare, LMArena Text: legal and government, LMArena Text: business and finance
Not measured on Design Arena: websites, Design Arena: UI components, Design Arena: game dev, Design Arena: data viz, Design Arena: 3D, Design Arena: all code categories, Design Arena: SVG, Design Arena: ASCII art, LiveBench design
Not measured on Vals Index, LiveBench data analysis, SAGE (Vals AI), Vals Multimodal Index, IFBench, DTBench, LMCA, Fiction.LiveBench, Creative writing (Lech Mazur), CL-bench, Surface Evolver Bench, Furniture assembly, ExploitBench, HellaSwag, WinoGrande, PIQA, CL-bench Life, LMArena Text, LMArena Text: instruction following, LMArena Text: creative writing, LMArena Vision, LMArena Text: English, LMArena Text: non-English, LMArena Text: Chinese, LMArena Text: German, LMArena Text: Japanese, LMArena Text: Korean, LMArena Text: French, LMArena Text: Spanish, LMArena Text: Russian, LMArena Text: Polish, LMArena Text: multi-turn, LMArena Text: longer queries, LMArena Text: writing and language, LMArena Text: entertainment and media, LMArena Vision: English, LMArena Vision: Chinese, LMArena Vision: reading text, LMArena Vision: humor, LMArena Vision: captioning, LMArena Vision: recognizing things, LMArena Vision: creative writing, LMArena Document
Not measured on Design Arena: images, Design Arena: graphic design, Design Arena: logos, LMArena Text to Image, LMArena Image Edit
Public boards shown as published (Vals AI, Artificial Analysis, Design Arena) and kept out of the coding index. Each links to its source on the benchmark page.
| Benchmark | Result | Index weight |
|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglotCoding | Not measured | 35% |
| SWE-bench VerifiedCoding | Not measured | 30% |
| SWE-bench LiteCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SWE-bench (full test set)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SWE-bench MultimodalCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SWE-bench MultilingualCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench codingCoding | Not measured | 20% |
| LMArena WebDevCoding | Not measured | 15% |
| Vals IndexGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| GPQA DiamondReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| AIMEMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| MMLU ProKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| AA Intelligence IndexIntelligence | 12.3 | Not in index |
| AA Coding IndexCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| AA Agentic IndexAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: websitesWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: UI componentsWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: game devWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: data vizWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: 3DWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: all code categoriesWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: SVGWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: ASCII artWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building web appsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile appsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building Android appsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot gamesAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: agents building gamesAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: HTML slidesAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: spreadsheetsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: imagesImage generation | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: graphic designImage generation | Not measured | Not in index |
| Design Arena: logosImage generation | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench reasoningReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench data analysisGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench researchAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench browserAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench long agenticAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveBench designWeb design | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Coding | 0.0% | Not in index |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Coding | 3.7% | Not in index |
| Code migration (Vals AI)Coding | 4.5% | Not in index |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SREBench (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| IOI (Vals AI)Coding | 2.4% | Not in index |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Coding | 34.5% | Not in index |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI)Coding | 18.1% | Not in index |
| CyberBench (Vals AI)Coding | 45.5% | Not in index |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI)Agentic work | 18.9% | Not in index |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Agentic work | 2.5% | Not in index |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Agentic work | 4.3% | Not in index |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Agentic work | 8.8% | Not in index |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)Agentic work | 0.0% | Not in index |
| Vals Science IndexAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI)Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)General | 45.3% | Not in index |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)Reasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Reasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI)Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| MGSM (Vals AI)Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| SAGE (Vals AI)General | Not measured | Not in index |
| LegalBench (Vals AI)Knowledge | 83.1% | Not in index |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| CorpFin (Vals AI)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| TaxEval (Vals AI)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| MedQA (Vals AI)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| MedCode (Vals AI)Knowledge | 31.3% | Not in index |
| MedScribe (Vals AI)General | 55.1% | Not in index |
| Vals Multimodal IndexGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| AA Math IndexMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Reasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Reasoning | 11.8% | Not in index |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Knowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| SciCodeCoding | 38.5% | Not in index |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Coding | Not measured | Not in index |
| IFBenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)General | 71.7% | Not in index |
| τ²-Bench TelecomAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| Terminal-BenchCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| DeepSWECoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| FrontierCodeCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| FrontierSWECoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| GSO-BenchCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| WeirdMLCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| MirrorCodeCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| APEX-AgentsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| METR time horizonsAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Remote Labor IndexAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| GDPvalAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| OSWorld 2.0Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| BALROGAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| DeepResearch BenchAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| PostTrainBenchAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Reasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| ARC-AGIReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| ARC-AGI-2Reasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| Humanity's Last ExamReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| SimpleBenchReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| Chess puzzlesReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| Mystery game puzzlesReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| EBR-benchReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| OTIS Mock AIMEMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| FrontierMath, tier 4Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| ProofBenchMath | 3.0% | Not in index |
| MATH level 5Math | Not measured | Not in index |
| GSM8KMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| SimpleQA VerifiedKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| MMLUKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| GeoBenchKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| DTBenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMCAGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| Fiction.LiveBenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur)General | Not measured | Not in index |
| CL-benchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| Surface Evolver BenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| Furniture assemblyGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| ExploitBenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| CybenchCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| TheAgentCompanyAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| OSWorldAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| SpireClimbAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| VPCTReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| BIG-Bench HardReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| AI2 Reasoning ChallengeKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| HellaSwagGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| WinoGrandeGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| PIQAGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| CL-bench LifeGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| ALE-BenchCoding | 301.6 | Not in index |
| Vending-Bench 2Agentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| Epoch Capabilities IndexIntelligence | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena TextGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: codingCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: hard promptsReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: mathMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: instruction followingGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: creative writingGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena VisionGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: EnglishGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: non-EnglishGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: ChineseGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: GermanGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: JapaneseGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: KoreanGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: FrenchGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: SpanishGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: RussianGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: PolishGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: multi-turnGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: longer queriesGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: expertReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in EnglishReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: software and ITCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: mathematical workMath | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: scienceKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcareKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: legal and governmentKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: business and financeKnowledge | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: writing and languageGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and mediaGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena WebDev: ReactCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena WebDev: HTMLCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena WebDev: from an imageCoding | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: EnglishGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: ChineseGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: reading textGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: diagramsReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: homeworkReasoning | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: humorGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: captioningGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Vision: creative writingGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena SearchAgentic work | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena DocumentGeneral | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Text to ImageImage generation | Not measured | Not in index |
| LMArena Image EditImage generation | Not measured | Not in index |
A list price says what a token costs. The cost per solved task says what a working answer costs, which is the number that decides.
Neither board that publishes what a SWE-bench Verified attempt costs, Vals AI and swebench.com, has run this model. We leave the number out rather than estimate it.
Beside a result, many boards publish what the run cost, how long it took, the tokens it spent or the votes behind a rating. Each figure as its board printed it, one board per row.
| Board | Result | What the run cost | Also published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 0.0% | $0.37 per test | Duration, as printed 15m 14s |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 3.7% | $0.38 per test | Duration, as printed 3m 13s |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 4.5% | $0.63 per test | Duration, as printed 16m 14s |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 2.4% | $0.16 per test | Duration, as printed 4m 03s |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 34.5% | $0.21 per test | Duration, as printed 11m 29s |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 18.1% | $0.10 per test | Duration, as printed 49 s |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 45.5% | $0.12 per test | Duration, as printed 18m 59s |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 18.9% | $0.11 per test | Duration, as printed 1m 32s |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | $0.02 per test | Duration, as printed 30 s |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 4.3% | $0.06 per test | Duration, as printed 48 s |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 8.8% | $0.42 per test | Duration, as printed 5m 01s |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 0.0% | $0.18 per test | Duration, as printed 28m 14s |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 45.3% | $0.07 per test | Nothing else |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 3.0% | $0.0441 per test | Time per proof 3m 22s |
| ALE-Bench | 301.6 | $0.0062 per problem | Tokens per problem 10,710 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.1% | Not published | Latency, as printed 3.9 s |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 31.3% | Not published | Latency, as printed 7.9 s |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 55.1% | Not published | Latency, as printed 10.0 s |
No comparison page of its own yet: one needs a coding index on both sides, and Mercury 2.5 has none. Compare Mercury 2.5 with any model