# Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking vs Particle-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking and Particle-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mellum2-1-12b-a2-5b-thinking-vs-particle-1
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking and Particle-1 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking has the lower published output-token price.
- Particle-1 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Particle-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | JetBrains | Particle AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.25 / $1.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 17.4% | 79.9% | Particle-1 |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 47% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 28% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 72.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Redux | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 64.6% | 90.4% | Particle-1 |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking and Particle-1?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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