Model comparison

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 vs Mercury 2

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 OpenAI

43.8

Rank #82 Confirmed

Mercury 2 Inception

39.1

Rank #175 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher in 7 categories and Mercury 2 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads 33.8 to 23.8.

Side by side

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and Mercury 2 specifications
Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
ProviderOpenAIInception
Noometry Index43.839.1
Released—2026-02-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—50K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.75
Results tracked2117

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Category by category

Coding Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 41.6 (#122), Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Coding14131391
LMArena WebDev—1171
SciCode—38.7%
WeirdML—43.2%
ALE-Bench—785.58

Reasoning Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 33.8 (#71), Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Hard Prompts14241362
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
CritPt—0.8%

Math Not comparable

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 38.6 (#134), Mercury 2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Math1407—

Knowledge Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.2 (#137), Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Expert14011358
Confabulations16.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.6 (#58), Mercury 2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Vision1243—

Multilingual Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 52.9 (#76), Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Non-English14191331
LMArena Chinese14571417
LMArena Russian14291304
LMArena French1446—
LMArena German1423—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1396—
LMArena Spanish1434—

Instruction Following Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 74.0 (#107), Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Instruction Following14031329

Long Context Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 43.1 (#107), Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Longer Query14131330

Writing & Preference Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 62.6 (#72), Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Mercury 2
LMArena Text14291355
LMArena Creative Writing14051289
LMArena Multi-Turn14541358
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 better than Mercury 2?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 or Mercury 2 better for coding?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and Mercury 2 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2 has 17.

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