# Grok 4.5 vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 4.5 and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-4-5-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Grok 4.5 and Mercury 2.5.

## Summary

- Grok 4.5 and Mercury 2.5 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | Inception |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 500K | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 68.07 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $6.00 | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 60.5 (Supported · #19/152)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 15.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 96.0% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 34.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 62.2 (Supported · #16/151)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 78% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 89.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 78.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 44.8 (#18/18)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: 69.6 (Supported · #14/182)
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Grok 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Grok 4.5 and Mercury 2.5 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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## Explore More

- [Grok 4.5 profile](/models/grok-4-5)
- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)