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Inception: Mercury 2 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

Inkling leads on average score with 5.2 vs 4.6. Mercury 2 has the lower benchmark cost at $0.030 vs $0.147. Mercury 2 is faster at 829ms vs 3.50s, with pass rates of 22.7% vs 28.8%.

Recommended modelMercury 2Its score stays close to the best score here (4.6 vs 5.2), while costing about 5.0x less than Inkling.

Last updated at: 2026-07-18

Metric Mercury 2 Mercury 2 none Release: 2026-02-24 Inkling Inkling none Release: 2026-07-18
Score 4.6 5.2
Rank #185 #160
Reliability 10.0 9.9
Consistency 9.2 9.6
Tests Correct
Attempt pass rate 22.7% 28.8%
Flaky tests 2 1
Total Runs 66 66
Cost per result 0.734 2.448
Total Cost $0.030 $0.147
Input Price $0.250 / 1M $1.000 / 1M
Output Price $0.750 / 1M $4.050 / 1M
Total Input Tokens 88,704 104,111
Output Tokens 9,564 10,551
Reasoning Tokens 0 0
Response Time (avg) 829ms 3.50s
Response Time (max) 4.52s 48.02s
Response Time (total) 18.24s 77.09s

Hamster playing table tennis

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

#185 Mercury 2

none
Cost
$0.002
Time
1.8s
Tokens
1,514 tok

#160 Thinking Machines: Inkling

none
Provider returned error
Cost
$0.000
Time
5.3s
Tokens
0 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 3.4 9.6 0.0% 0 1.03s 7,229 3,088 0
Inkling 4.5 10.0 0.0% 0 1.01s 7,356 436 0

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