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Mercury

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

Mercury 1282.0 Mercury · 95% interval 1268.3–1295.7 · 1,966 votes · 2026-10-28

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,322.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,294.29 – 1,350.09

413 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,188.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,150.78 – 1,227.17

295 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,300.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,279.88 – 1,321.01

855 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,212.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,191.61 – 1,232.57

1429 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,285.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,266.68 – 1,303.36

1053 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,307.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,280.14 – 1,335.80

455 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,290.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,258.57 – 1,321.89

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,214.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.99 – 1,246.63

377 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,299.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,265.74 – 1,333.75

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,319.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,297.00 – 1,341.61

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,229.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,201.29 – 1,258.08

468 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,239.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.88 – 1,264.85

589 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,264.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,238.65 – 1,290.02

521 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,282.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,250.01 – 1,314.43

333 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,259.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,241.74 – 1,277.34

1111 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Mercury

1,281.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.31 – 1,295.68

1966 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Mercury
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Mercury

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Proprietary