Mercury 2 (medium) vs GLM 5.1 (medium)

Recommended model Mercury 2 (medium)

It has the best score here (7.0), while costing about 7.8x less than GLM 5.1 (medium).

Detailed comparison

Metric	Mercury 2 Mercury 2 medium Release: 2026-02-24	GLM 5.1 GLM 5.1 medium Release: 2026-04-07

Metric	Mercury 2 Mercury 2 medium Release: 2026-02-24	GLM 5.1 GLM 5.1 medium Release: 2026-04-07
Score	7.0	7.0
Rank	#131	#129
Reliability	10.0	8.1
Consistency	8.4	8.4
Attempts	66/66	66/66
Tests Correct
Attempt pass rate	53.0%	65.2%
Flaky tests	4	4
Total Runs	66	66
Cost per result	0.933	6.923
Total Cost	$0.094	$0.727
Input Price	$0.250 / 1M	$0.966 / 1M
Output Price	$0.750 / 1M	$3.036 / 1M
Total Input Tokens	110,515	82,592
Output Tokens	10,325	16,089
Reasoning Tokens	77,229	199,800
Response Time (avg)	2.95s	58.80s
Response Time (max)	14.63s	308.75s
Response Time (total)	61.89s	1234.72s
Parameters	~100B	744B total (40B active)
Availability	Closed	Open source

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Anti-AI Tricks	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	6.9	9.9	50.0%	0		1.12s	554	2,546	2,609
GLM 5.1	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		8.31s	555	401	5,122

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
GLM 5.1	4.6	3.7	44.5%	2		109.63s	5,702	4,871	37,826

Combined	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	6.7	9.1	50.0%	0		7.84s	87,365	6,533	20,474
GLM 5.1	9.8	10.0	100.0%	0		175.93s	66,926	4,761	65,248

Data parsing and extraction	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	7.3	5.9	83.3%	1		1.11s	6,234	183	1,656
GLM 5.1	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		9.33s	7,107	991	4,552

Domain specific	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	2.9	4.4	22.2%	2		8.06s	1,638	53	31,177
GLM 5.1	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		113.95s	458	969	74,651

General Intelligence	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	4.8	10.0	0.0%	0		821ms	456	137	542
GLM 5.1	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		20.95s	477	2,875	2,875

Instructions following	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		1.07s	340	14	958
GLM 5.1	6.4	5.8	66.7%	1		7.47s	634	204	1,617

Puzzle Solving	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	5.4	10.0	33.3%	0		949ms	601	361	2,781
GLM 5.1	8.2	7.2	88.9%	1		31.64s	609	935	5,730

Tool Calling	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		1.89s	6,080	180	1,956
GLM 5.1	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		0ms	0	0	0

Trivia	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Mercury 2	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		2.58s	182	22	3,748
GLM 5.1	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		29.40s	124	82	2,179

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