# Mercury 2.5 vs Ornith-1.5-397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Ornith-1.5-397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-ornith-1-5-397b
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and Ornith-1.5-397B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Ornith-1.5-397B has the lower published output-token price.
- Ornith-1.5-397B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | Ornith-1.5-397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Ornith AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 65.33 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 18 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)
- Ornith-1.5-397B public-lane score: 61 (Estimated · #18/152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ornith-1.5-397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 80% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 71.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)
- Ornith-1.5-397B public-lane score: 59.1 (Estimated · #25/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ornith-1.5-397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 65.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 56% | Coming soon |
| frontierBench | Coming soon | 13.5% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 59.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Ornith-1.5-397B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)
- Ornith-1.5-397B public-lane score: 60.6 (Estimated · #36/182)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ornith-1.5-397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | 92.8% | Ornith-1.5-397B |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 92.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 44.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 44.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)
- Ornith-1.5-397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ornith-1.5-397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and Ornith-1.5-397B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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