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Mercury

Inception AI

Strongest in General intelligence (#173 of 181, on 1 of its 3 boards), weakest in Human preference (#227 of 354). Above par in 0 of 4 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon and ahead of Magistral Medium.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Core abilities39.4#189/201
General intelligence34.7#173/181
Human preference47.5#227/354
Human preference47.5#227/354

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Mercury, left for the other.

Magistral Mediumwon 4 · lost 0
Mistral Mediumwon 2 · lost 2
Claude 3 Haikuwon 2 · lost 2
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 2
Granite 4.2 3Bwon 2 · lost 2
Granite 4.2 8Bwon 2 · lost 2
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 2 · lost 2
Gemma 4 31Bwon 1 · lost 3
Grok 4.3won 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 0 · lost 3
GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 3
Kimi K2.6won 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 3
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 3
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 3
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 3
Gemma 3n E4B ITwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-4o miniwon 0 · lost 4
GPT OSS 20Bwon 0 · lost 4
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 nanowon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5 nanowon 0 · lost 4
MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 4
Qwen Pluswon 0 · lost 4
Qwen3 32Bwon 0 · lost 4
Step 3won 0 · lost 4
GLM-4.5Vwon 0 · lost 4
GPT OSS 120Bwon 0 · lost 4
Command Awon 0 · lost 4
Mistral Small 3.2won 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
Grok 3 Miniwon 0 · lost 4
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 0 · lost 4
GLM-4.5 Airwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 miniwon 0 · lost 4
Solar Pro 4won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5 miniwon 0 · lost 4
MiniMax M2.5won 0 · lost 4
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3won 0 · lost 4
LongCat Flash Chatwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.4 nanowon 0 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 4
Grok 4 Fastwon 0 · lost 4
Inkling Smallwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 0 · lost 4
Grok 3won 0 · lost 4
Grok 4won 0 · lost 4
Inkling 2 Smallwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 4
Mistral Large 3won 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.1won 0 · lost 4
Kimi K2won 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek R1won 0 · lost 4
Claude Haiku 5.5won 0 · lost 4
Mistral Large 4won 0 · lost 4
Qwen3 Maxwon 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.2won 0 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 0 · lost 4
Muse Glimmerwon 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 4
Mistral Medium 3.5won 0 · lost 4
O3won 0 · lost 4
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5won 0 · lost 4
MiniMax M3won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-6 Lunawon 0 · lost 4
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 4
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 4
Inklingwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.4 miniwon 0 · lost 4
Step 5won 0 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
Kimi K2.5won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 4
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 4
GLM-5won 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 4
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 4
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 0 · lost 4
Grok 4.20won 0 · lost 4
GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.5won 0 · lost 4
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
GLM-5.2won 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 4
GPT-6.1 Solwon 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 4
Kimi K3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 4
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 4
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 4
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 4
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 4
Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 4
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 4
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 4
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 4
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 4
Muse Wonderwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 4 Argonwon 0 · lost 4
Gemini 4 Carbonwon 0 · lost 4

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

2 publications, 2 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-12
LMArena Text 1305
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-11-12
Kagi LLM Benchmark 21.6%

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