Updated November 13, 2026. Rank says Trinity-Large-Thinking is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead. 0 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Arcee AI
43.24/100
Estimated · Public rank #133
Conditional range 28.9–57.6
Mercury 2: $0.25 input / $0.75 output
Trinity-Large-Thinking: $0.25 input / $0.90 output
Mercury 2: 128K
Trinity-Large-Thinking: 512K
Mercury 2: February 24, 2026
Trinity-Large-Thinking: March 10, 2026
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Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Trinity-Large-Thinking has the higher public coding point estimate, 18.6 to 15.7, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Trinity-Large-Thinking has the larger documented context window.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Mercury 2
Mercury 2 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Mercury 2
Mercury 2 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
Mercury 2 and Trinity-Large-Thinking are scored on Estimated evidence for agentic, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. Mercury 2 does not fit this workload in one request. Trinity-Large-Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.
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Like-for-like · BenchAlign v5.8
Trinity-Large-Thinking has the higher coding point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
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1 category rests on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
A shared-evidence shape is not available.
BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.
Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, reasoning, multimodal, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Mercury 2 | Trinity-Large-Thinking | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 15.7Supported · #144/162 | 18.6Supported · #138/162 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 0 vs 1 public rows | Trinity-Large-Thinking leads · intervals overlap |
| Agentic | 16.6Estimated · #125/135 | 22.7Estimated · #117/135 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 0 vs 2 public rows | Directional only |
| Reasoning | Not ranked | 30.2Estimated · #121/160 | Not comparableBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 0 vs 0 public rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 0 vs 0 public rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | Not ranked | 36.9Estimated · #129/180 | Not comparableBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 0 vs 2 public rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | 28.9#140/157 | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 1 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, reasoning, multimodal, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Mercury 2 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Mercury 2 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Mercury 2 does not fit this workload in one request. Trinity-Large-Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Enter a month of tokens to price it at both models’ listed API rates.
Standard listed rates, no batch or volume discounts.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Mercury 2
Trinity-Large-Thinking
512K
Mercury 2
mercury-2
Inception models pageTrinity-Large-Thinking
Not sourced
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Mercury 2
$0.025 per 1M cached input tokens
Inception models pageTrinity-Large-Thinking
Not published
Mercury 2
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Mercury 2
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Mercury 2
Not sourced
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Not sourced
Mercury 2
Reasoning
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Reasoning
Mercury 2
Proprietary
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Open Weight
Mercury 2
Proprietary
Trinity-Large-Thinking
Open Weight
Mercury 2
2026-02-24
Trinity-Large-Thinking
2026-03-10
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Trinity-Large-Thinking has the higher public coding point estimate, 18.6 to 15.7, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Trinity-Large-Thinking scores higher for agentic tasks on the public lane, 22.7 to 16.6. Mercury 2 and Trinity-Large-Thinking are scored on Estimated evidence for agentic tasks, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for agentic tasks from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.00063 on Mercury 2 and $0.0007 on Trinity-Large-Thinking; repository review costs $0.01475 and $0.0152; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.0175 and $0.064. Mercury 2 does not fit this workload in one request. Trinity-Large-Thinking has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Trinity-Large-Thinking has the larger documented context window: 512K, compared with 128K.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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Last updated November 13, 2026
