Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Mercury 2.5
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 23.3.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 33.5 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2026-09-08 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 260K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| SciCode | — | 38.5% |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Mercury 2.5 leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | — |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Mercury 2.5: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Mercury 2.5?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Mercury 2.5 better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Mercury 2.5 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 4.