# Laguna M.1 vs Mercury

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/laguna-m-1-vs-mercury
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Laguna M.1 leads 21.9 to 16.8.
- Laguna M.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Poolside | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.3 |
| Rank | 252 | 192 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Laguna M.1: 36.4 (#195)
- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1348 | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1323 |

## Reasoning

- Laguna M.1: 21.9 (#187)
- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1284 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 15.6% | — |

## Math

- Laguna M.1: 20.3 (#276)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 0% | — |

## Multilingual

- Laguna M.1: —
- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1259 |

## Instruction Following

- Laguna M.1: —
- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1238 |

## Long Context

- Laguna M.1: —
- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1264 |

## Writing & Preference

- Laguna M.1: —
- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)

| Benchmark | Laguna M.1 | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1283 |

## FAQ

### Is Laguna M.1 better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Laguna M.1 or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 36.4 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.