# 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.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-2-vs-ring-2-6-1t
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## 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.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | Ant Group (inclusionAI) |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 36.9 |
| Rank | 175 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Mercury 2: 70.2 (#165)
- Ring-2.6-1T: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1329 | — |

## Long Context

- Mercury 2: 40.5 (#154)
- Ring-2.6-1T: —

| Benchmark | Mercury 2 | Ring-2.6-1T |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1330 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- 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 | — |

## FAQ

### 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.