# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Mercury 2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Mercury 2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-mercury-2
- Last updated: September 4, 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 MAI-Thinking-1 and Mercury 2.

## Summary

- MAI-Thinking-1 and Mercury 2 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 | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Inception |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.27 | 47.28 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 0 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.25 / $0.75 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #53/151)
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: 42.7 (Estimated · #112/151)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #60/183)
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: 25.5 (Supported · #177/183)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 53.3 (Estimated · #68/181)
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 94.7 (#1/120)
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 73.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Mercury 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Mercury 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare MAI-Thinking-1 and Mercury 2 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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