Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mercury

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 6 categories and Mercury in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 17.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 80.7% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 21.6% for Mercury.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Mercury specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Mercury
ProviderAnthropicInception
Noometry Index58.337.6
Released2026-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked669

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Coding15181322
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Mercury: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%21.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061285
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Mercury: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Mercury: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
LMArena Expert1521—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Mercury: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Non-English14801260
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1494—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Instruction Following14981239

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Longer Query15051266

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Mercury
LMArena Text14901282
LMArena Creative Writing14861191
LMArena Multi-Turn15051282
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Mercury?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Mercury better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Mercury share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.

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