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GPT-6.1 Solvs
Mercury 2
GPT-6.1 Sol leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Mercury 2 is 12x cheaper per token. GPT-6.1 Sol has the larger context window (1.1M tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
GPT-6.1 Sol leads
Cheaper per token
Mercury 2
12x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-6.1 Sol
1.1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · Inception
GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI · released 2026-09-29
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 22 only GPT-6.1 Sol · 1 only Mercury 2| Benchmark | GPT-6.1 Sol | Mercury 2 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1483.2 ↗ | 1343.3 ↗ | +139.9 | GPT-6.1 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1757.8 ↗ | 1170 ↗ | +587.8 | GPT-6.1 Sol |
| Only GPT-6.1 Sol reports · 22 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 95.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 60% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 61% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 54.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 93.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 80% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 56.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 80.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 82.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 74.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 90.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 96.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 92.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.1123 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1290.6 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 80% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 46.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 82.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 73.9% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 55.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Mercury 2 reports · 1 | ||||
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | not reported | 43.2% ↗ | — | — |
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 GPT-6.1 Sol minus Mercury 2 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 | GPT-6.1 Sol | Mercury 2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.1M tokens | 128K tokens | GPT-6.1 Sol |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 50K tokens | GPT-6.1 Sol |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $0.75 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $0.025 ↗ | Mercury 2 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $1 | Mercury 2 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GPT-6.1 Sol |
| Released | 2026-09-29 | 2026-02-24 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 24 | 3 | — |
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