Model comparison
Mercury vs Ring-2.6-1T
Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#192); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Ant Group (inclusionAI)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Ring-2.6-1T leads 25.3 to 16.8.
- Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Ant Group (inclusionAI) |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 36.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Ring-2.6-1T leads
Mercury: 38.1 (#164), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.1
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 42.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1323 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 432.57 |
Reasoning Ring-2.6-1T leads
Mercury: 16.8 (#288), Ring-2.6-1T: 25.3
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| CritPt | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mercury: 41.7 (#201), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1259 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mercury: 65.3 (#220), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1238 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mercury: 38.3 (#193), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1264 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mercury: 46.2 (#216), Ring-2.6-1T: —
| Benchmark | Mercury | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1283 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mercury better than Ring-2.6-1T?
Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#192); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mercury or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?
Ring-2.6-1T scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mercury and Ring-2.6-1T share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.