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Inception: Mercury 2 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol

Mercury 2 (medium) leads on average score with 7.0 vs 6.9. Mercury 2 (medium) has the lower benchmark cost at $0.093 vs $0.524. GPT-5.6 Sol is faster at 2.16s vs 2.72s, with pass rates of 51.5% vs 59.1%.

Recommended modelMercury 2 (medium)It has the best score here (7.0), while costing about 5.6x less than GPT-5.6 Sol.

Last updated at: 2026-07-17

Metric Mercury 2 Mercury 2 medium Release: 2026-02-24 GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Sol none Release: 2026-07-09
Score 7.0 6.9
Rank #75 #80
Reliability 10.0 10.0
Consistency 8.8 9.0
Tests Correct
Attempt pass rate 51.5% 59.1%
Flaky tests 3 3
Total Runs 66 66
Cost per result 0.928 4.761
Total Cost $0.093 $0.524
Input Price $0.250 / 1M $5.000 / 1M
Output Price $0.750 / 1M $30.000 / 1M
Total Input Tokens 109,572 78,593
Output Tokens 10,313 4,357
Reasoning Tokens 76,806 0
Response Time (avg) 2.72s 2.16s
Response Time (max) 14.63s 12.81s
Response Time (total) 57.12s 47.62s

Hamster playing table tennis

Prompt: Create a detailed SVG illustration of a hamster playing table tennis.

#75 Mercury 2

medium
Cost
$0.002
Time
2.1s
Tokens
1,702 tok

#80 GPT-5.6 Sol

none
Cost
$0.116
Time
78.7s
Tokens
3,944 tok

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Category Breakdown

Coding Score Consistency Attempt pass rate Flaky tests Tests Correct Response Time (avg) Input Tokens Output Tokens Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2 8.2 7.7 77.8% 1 2.04s 7,065 296 11,328
GPT-5.6 Sol 5.5 10.0 33.3% 0 1.39s 7,302 390 0

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