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Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

mercury 1281.8 mercury · 95% interval 1268.1–1295.5 · 1,965 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,322.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,294.39 – 1,350.21

413 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,189.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,150.87 – 1,227.28

295 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,300.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,279.89 – 1,321.03

855 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,212.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,191.59 – 1,232.56

1430 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,284.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,266.43 – 1,303.15

1053 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,307.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,280.11 – 1,335.78

455 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,290.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,258.70 – 1,322.03

359 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,214.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.26 – 1,246.12

376 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,299.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,265.84 – 1,333.88

297 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,319.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,297.12 – 1,341.75

686 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,229.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,200.48 – 1,257.58

466 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,239.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.56 – 1,264.52

590 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,264.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,238.44 – 1,289.81

522 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,282.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,250.07 – 1,314.51

333 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,259.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,241.37 – 1,277.04

1110 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

mercury

1,281.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.11 – 1,295.51

1965 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
mercury
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

mercury

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

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