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Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mercury Coder (Comparative Analysis)

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Comparative Analysis: Claude Sonnet 4 vs. Mercury Coder
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Overview

Mercury Coder was released 22 days before Claude Sonnet 4.
Claude Sonnet 4Claude Sonnet 4
Mercury CoderMercury Coder
Model Provider
The organization behind this AI's development
Anthropic logoAnthropic
Inception logoInception
Input Context Window
Maximum input tokens this model can process at once
1M
tokens
128K
tokens
Output Token Limit
Maximum output tokens this model can generate at once
64K
tokens
16.4K
tokens
Release Date
When this model first became publicly available
May 22nd, 2025
April 30th, 2025

Capabilities & Features

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Claude Sonnet 4
Mercury Coder
Input Types
Supported input formats
🖼️Image📝Text📁File
📝Text
Output Types
Supported output formats
📝Text
📝Text
Tokenizer
Text encoding system
ClaudeOther
Key Features
Advanced capabilities
Function CallingStructured OutputReasoning ModeContent Moderation
Function CallingStructured OutputReasoning ModeContent Moderation

Pricing

Claude Sonnet 4 is roughly 12.0x more expensive compared to Mercury Coder for input tokens and roughly 15.0x more expensive for output tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4Claude Sonnet 4
Mercury CoderMercury Coder
Input Token Cost
Cost per million input tokens
$3.00
per million tokens
$0.25
per million tokens
Output Token Cost
Cost per million outut tokens
$15.00
per million tokens
$1.00
per million tokens

Benchmarks

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Claude Sonnet 4Claude Sonnet 4
Mercury CoderMercury Coder
MMLU
Measures knowledge across 57 subjects like law, math, history, and science
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MMMU
Measures understanding of combined text and images across various domains
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HellaSwag
Measures common sense reasoning by having models complete sentences about everyday situations
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At a Glance

Quick overview of what makes Claude Sonnet 4 and Mercury Coder unique.
Anthropic logoClaude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic understands both text and images, can use external tools and APIs, offers advanced reasoning. It can handle standard conversations with its 1M token context window. Premium pricing at $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output tokens. Released May 22nd, 2025.
Inception logoMercury Coder by Inception can use external tools and APIs, generates structured data. It can handle standard conversations with its 128K token context window. Very affordable at $0.25/M input and $1.00/M output tokens. Released April 30th, 2025.

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