# Mercury 2.5 vs OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-orcacyber-nano-1-0
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 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.
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 has the lower published output-token price.
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | OrcaRouter |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 33.57 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 12.1 (Supported · #123/132)
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 34.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 16.1 (Estimated · #133/153)
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 71.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #139/187)
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | 88.3% | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 81.1 (#60/152)
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: 32.4 (#134/152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | 56.3% | Mercury 2.5 |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 96.2% | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 98.6% | Coming soon |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and OrcaCyber-Nano-1.0?

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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