# Mercury vs o1-mini

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mercury-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Mercury leads 17.5 to 8.8.

## Snapshot

| | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inception | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 34.0 |
| Rank | 199 | 235 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mercury: —
- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1285 | 1333 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 21.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |

## Math

- Mercury: —
- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mercury: —
- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1316 |

## Multilingual

- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1260 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |

## Instruction Following

- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |

## Long Context

- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1320 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Mercury | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1191 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1282 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Mercury better than o1-mini?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mercury or o1-mini better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mercury and o1-mini share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.