Mercury 2 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Mercury 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 65 to 52. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mercury 2's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 41.1 against 18.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 46 to 5. Gemini 1.5 Pro does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Mercury 2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 1.5 Pro is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Mercury 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mercury 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 1.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 2M context window.

Agentic

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

63.7

Gemini 1.5 Pro

49.8

63
Terminal-Bench 2.0
45
67
BrowseComp
64
62
OSWorld-Verified
45

Coding

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

41.1

Gemini 1.5 Pro

18.5

75
HumanEval
56
46
SWE-bench Verified
5
38
LiveCodeBench
22
43
SWE-bench Pro
18

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Mercury 2

68.3

Gemini 1.5 Pro

74.1

66
MMMU-Pro
75
71
OfficeQA Pro
73

Reasoning

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

80.1

Gemini 1.5 Pro

66.9

82
SimpleQA
62
82
MuSR
60
87
BBH
74
77
LongBench v2
70
76
MRCRv2
73

Knowledge

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

57.2

Gemini 1.5 Pro

44.2

78
MMLU
64
78
GPQA
64
76
SuperGPQA
62
74
OpenBookQA
60
72
MMLU-Pro
57
9
HLE
1
69
FrontierScience
54

Instruction Following

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

84

Gemini 1.5 Pro

77

84
IFEval
77

Multilingual

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

79.7

Gemini 1.5 Pro

69.5

81
MGSM
76
79
MMLU-ProX
66

Mathematics

Mercury 2

Mercury 2

80.9

Gemini 1.5 Pro

67.5

81
AIME 2023
64
83
AIME 2024
66
82
AIME 2025
65
77
HMMT Feb 2023
60
79
HMMT Feb 2024
62
78
HMMT Feb 2025
61
80
BRUMO 2025
63
82
MATH-500
73

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 is ahead overall, 65 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 46 and 5.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.2 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 18.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 67.5. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 66.9. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.7 versus 49.8. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 68.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mercury 2 or Gemini 1.5 Pro?

Mercury 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 69.5. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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