Rankings / inception-ai
Mercury 2
proprietaryreleased 2026-02-20
BenchAtlas Index
as of 2026-07-14
base configuration
rank #240
7 families · 4 categories · medium
Benchmark evidence
21 results
agentic coding
| τ²-Bench | 70.8 % | independent | Artificial Analysis |
coding
| SciCode | 38.7 % | independent | Artificial Analysis |
external indices
| Intelligence Index v4.1 | 25.3 points | independent | Artificial Analysis |
human preference
| Coding (style control)older version arena=text · category=coding · style_control=true | 1396.6 1375.8–1417.3 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Industry Software And It Services (style control)older version arena=text · category=industry_software_and_it_services · style_control=true | 1385.1 1367.4–1402.8 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Hard Prompts English (style control)older version arena=text · category=hard_prompts_english · style_control=true | 1372.0 1352.3–1391.7 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| English (style control)older version arena=text · category=english · style_control=true | 1366.1 1350.6–1381.7 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Hard Prompts (style control)older version arena=text · category=hard_prompts · style_control=true | 1359.5 1345.7–1373.4 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Overall (style control) arena=text · category=overall · style_control=true | 1347.6 1337.0–1358.2 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Multi Turn (style control)older version arena=text · category=multi_turn · style_control=true | 1344.9 1319.3–1370.5 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Non English (style control)older version arena=text · category=non_english · style_control=true | 1325.6 1311.4–1339.7 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Longer Query (style control)older version arena=text · category=longer_query · style_control=true | 1325.2 1304.8–1345.7 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Instruction Following (style control)older version arena=text · category=instruction_following · style_control=true | 1323.2 1303.1–1343.3 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media (style control)older version arena=text · category=industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media · style_control=true | 1313.1 1290.2–1336.0 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language (style control)older version arena=text · category=industry_writing_and_literature_and_language · style_control=true | 1310.9 1288.4–1333.4 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Exclude Ties (style control)older version arena=text · category=exclude_ties · style_control=true | 1300.4 1284.5–1316.3 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset | |
| Creative Writing (style control)older version arena=text · category=creative_writing · style_control=true | 1299.5 1272.9–1326.1 | community | LMArena Leaderboard Dataset |
knowledge science
| GPQA Diamond implementation=artificial-analysis | 77.0 % | independent | Artificial Analysis | |
| Humanity's Last Exam implementation=artificial-analysis | 15.5 % | independent | Artificial Analysis |
long context instruction
| AA-LCR | 36.3 % | independent | Artificial Analysis | |
| IFBench | 69.8 % | independent | Artificial Analysis |
Agent + model results
systems, not bare-model scores
| agent + model Artificial Analysis harness + Mercury 2 | Terminal-Bench Hard | 26.5 % | independent | Artificial Analysis |
These scores measure the whole agent system (scaffold, tools, budgets) — they are never merged into the bare model’s numbers.