o1 vs Mercury 2

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

o1 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 68 versus 65. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

o1's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 69.6 against 57.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 91.8 to 78. Mercury 2 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $60.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.25 input / $0.75 output per 1M tokens for Mercury 2. That is roughly 80.0x on output cost alone. o1 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Mercury 2.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mercury 2 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

o1

o1

65.4

Mercury 2

63.7

66
Terminal-Bench 2.0
63
72
BrowseComp
67
60
OSWorld-Verified
62

Coding

o1

o1

48.4

Mercury 2

41.1

41
SWE-bench Verified
46
50
SWE-bench Pro
43
Coming soon
HumanEval
75
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
38

Multimodal & Grounded

o1

o1

70.7

Mercury 2

68.3

68
MMMU-Pro
66
74
OfficeQA Pro
71

Reasoning

Mercury 2

o1

78.1

Mercury 2

80.1

79
LongBench v2
77
77
MRCRv2
76
Coming soon
SimpleQA
82
Coming soon
MuSR
82
Coming soon
BBH
87

Knowledge

o1

o1

69.6

Mercury 2

57.2

91.8
MMLU
78
75.7
GPQA
78
65
FrontierScience
69
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
76
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
74
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
72
Coming soon
HLE
9

Instruction Following

o1

o1

92.2

Mercury 2

84

92.2
IFEval
84

Multilingual

Mercury 2

o1

77

Mercury 2

79.7

77
MMLU-ProX
79
Coming soon
MGSM
81

Mathematics

Mercury 2

o1

74.3

Mercury 2

80.9

74.3
AIME 2024
83
Coming soon
AIME 2023
81
Coming soon
AIME 2025
82
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
77
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
79
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
78
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
80
Coming soon
MATH-500
82

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 is ahead overall, 68 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 91.8 and 78.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 57.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 41.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1 or Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 74.3. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1 or Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 78.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.4 versus 63.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.7 versus 68.3. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1 or Mercury 2?

o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 84. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1 or Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 77. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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