Model comparison
Laguna M.1 vs Mercury
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
PoolsideSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Laguna M.1 leads 23.1 to 17.5.
- Laguna M.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Laguna M.1 | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Poolside | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 32.5 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2026-04-28 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 3 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
Laguna M.1: 36.6 (#204), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
Reasoning Laguna M.1 leads
Laguna M.1: 23.1 (#184), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 15.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Laguna M.1: 21.1 (#283), Mercury: —
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 0% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Laguna M.1: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Laguna M.1: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Laguna M.1: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Laguna M.1: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Laguna M.1 better than Mercury?
Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Laguna M.1 or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Laguna M.1 and Mercury share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Laguna M.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.