Compare / head-to-head
Claude Opus 5.5vs
Mercury 2.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Mercury 2.5 is 25.3x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Opus 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Mercury 2.5
25.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Inception
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-22
textvision
Mercury 2.5
Inception · released 2026-09-08
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 33 only Claude Opus 5.5 · 0 only Mercury 2.5| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 65.2% ↗ | 0% ↗ | +65.2 pt | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Only Claude Opus 5.5 reports · 33 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.6% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1503.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 73.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench 1.0.6 | 40% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chartography (with tools) | 89% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 57.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 71.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | 54.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 95% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 91.2% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 62.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 83.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 1846 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 67.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 71.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 80.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 67% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 86.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 97.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 92.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.1382 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1815.4 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MirrorCode (Epoch AI run) | 77.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 71% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 (partial) | 81.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 88.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 72.2% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 66.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 58.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 9235.25 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Mercury 2.5 reports · 0 | ||||
| Mercury 2.5 reports nothing Claude Opus 5.5 does not. | ||||
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 5.5 minus Mercury 2.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 5.5 | Mercury 2.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 260K tokens | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $4 ↗ | $0.2 ↗ | Mercury 2.5 |
| Output price / 1M | $20 ↗ | $0.75 ↗ | Mercury 2.5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.02 ↗ | Mercury 2.5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $24 | $0.95 | Mercury 2.5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | 2026-09-08 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 34 | 1 | — |
Reliability
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