Model comparison
Mercury 2 vs Ring-2.6-1T
Mercury 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#175); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Ant Group (inclusionAI)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Ring-2.6-1T leads 40.7 to 33.5.
- Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Ant Group (inclusionAI) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 36.9 |
| Released | 2026-02-20 | 2026-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 50K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.75 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Ring-2.6-1T leads
Mercury 2: 33.5 (#255), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 38.7% | 42.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 785.58 | 432.57 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1171 | — |
| WeirdML | 43.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads
Mercury 2: 23.8 (#170), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.8% | 3.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1362 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mercury 2: 36.2 (#172), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1358 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury 2: 46.6 (#157), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1304 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury 2: 53.8 (#155), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1358 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury 2 better than Ring-2.6-1T?
Mercury 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#175); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mercury 2 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?
Ring-2.6-1T scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.7 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury 2 and Ring-2.6-1T share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury 2 has 17 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.