Model comparison

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Mercury

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #8 Confirmed

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 73.3 to 17.5.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 Pro and Mercury specifications
GPT-5.5 ProMercury
ProviderOpenAIInception
Noometry Index64.337.6
Released2026-04-23—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked149

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
LMArena Coding—1322

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.3 (#10), Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
SimpleBench76.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—21.6%
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30.6%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1285
DTBench96%—
LMCA53.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.07—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: 84.0 (#10), Mercury: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)87.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 478%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)52.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)39.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.1 (#19), Mercury: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
GPQA Diamond93.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
LMArena Non-English—1260

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
LMArena Instruction Following—1239

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
LMArena Longer Query—1266

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5 Pro: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5 ProMercury
LMArena Text—1282
LMArena Creative Writing—1191
LMArena Multi-Turn—1282

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Mercury?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Pro and Mercury share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.

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