# Mercury 2.5 vs Ultramarine 1 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Ultramarine 1 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-ultramarine-1-flash
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Mercury 2.5 and Ultramarine 1 Flash.

## Summary

- Mercury 2.5 and Ultramarine 1 Flash 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 | Mercury 2.5 | Ultramarine 1 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Paper Instruments |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | Not disclosed |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 34.3 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | $0.15 / $0.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 12.3 (Supported · #116/126)
- Ultramarine 1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ultramarine 1 Flash | 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 |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 50.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 16.1 (Estimated · #130/149)
- Ultramarine 1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ultramarine 1 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 83.2% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 61.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 72.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ultramarine 1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 34.6 (Supported · #134/182)
- Ultramarine 1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ultramarine 1 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 81.1 (#56/146)
- Ultramarine 1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Ultramarine 1 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Mercury 2.5 and Ultramarine 1 Flash 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Mercury 2.5 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-mercury-2-5-preview)
- [Ultramarine 1 Flash vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-preview-vs-ultramarine-1-flash)
- [Mercury 2.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-mercury-2-5)
- [Ultramarine 1 Flash vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-ultramarine-1-flash)

## Explore More

- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
- [Ultramarine 1 Flash profile](/models/ultramarine-1-flash)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)