# Mercury 2.5 vs Solar Open 2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Solar Open 2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-solar-open-2
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and Solar Open 2 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.
- Solar Open 2 has the lower published output-token price.
- Solar Open 2 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Upstage |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 11 |
| 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 (Estimated · #92/152)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| terminalBenchHard | Coming soon | 28.3% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 16.6% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 58.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.1 (Estimated · #73/151)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.6 (Estimated · #94/183)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | 86.3% | Solar Open 2 |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 28.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#54/123)
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | 80% | Solar Open 2 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Solar Open 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Solar Open 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and Solar Open 2?

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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- [Solar Open 2 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-preview-vs-solar-open-2)
- [Mercury 2.5 vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-mercury-2-5)
- [Solar Open 2 vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-solar-open-2)

## Explore More

- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
- [Solar Open 2 profile](/models/solar-open-2)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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