Playground · Mercury 3 model page
Mercury 3 in the playground
28 tests; our pick in 0. Each answer is linked to the test, where it runs live beside the other models'.
- Our pick
- 0 of 28 tests
- Checks passed
- 80% 90 of 112
- All checks passed
- 12 of 28 tests
- Rank
- 11 of 18 models by checks passed
- Cost
- $0.41 every try; $0.41 for the answers shown
- Time
- 54 min every try; 49 min for the answers shown
- Tries
- 29 for 28 answers; 1 needed more than one
- Thinking
- 89% of its output tokens
| Test | Our notes | Checks | Time | Cost | Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make a stained glass window of a hummingbird and flowers Animation · 7 models |
A window built pane by pane: a sky and meadow of blue and green triangles, a large red flower, a hummingbird with a white throat and a long beak at the flower, a small orange flower and leaves, then the black leading, in about ten seconds; it holds and starts again on a click. There is no cartoon drawn first. The bird and flowers are clear, and moving the pointer moves a brighter patch of light across the glass. The background is an even low-poly mosaic rather than cut glass. 3.1 minutes, $0.026. | 3.5 of 4 | 3.1 min | $0.026 | 92% |
| Throw a bowl on a potter's wheel from a lump of wet clay Animation · 7 models |
A dark wheel where the clay starts as a smooth, already open cylinder, flares into a conical bowl in about three seconds, turns grey and is then glazed a glossy teal; it holds and starts again on a click. There is no centring, no opening and no hands, and the bowl is a perfectly smooth cone, more like a lampshade than a thrown bowl. The glaze catches the light well: a bright highlight slides across it as the pointer moves. 115 seconds, $0.019. | 3 of 4 | 115 s | $0.019 | 91% |
| Paint a lemon on a blue plate as a thick oil painting on canvas Animation · 7 models |
A cream background and a table edge are scratched in first, then a blue oval plate that fills most of the frame, then a large yellow-orange fruit with a green stalk and leaf, finished in about 16 seconds; it holds and starts again on a click. The order is right, and the cross-hatched scratches and the highlights shift as the pointer moves, but the marks look like pencil hatching rather than thick paint, the fruit is round, with no lemon tips, so it reads as an orange or a yolk, and with the pointer in the middle a white glare covers the fruit. 3.8 minutes, $0.034. | 3 of 4 | 3.8 min | $0.034 | 91% |
| Bend a neon sign that says "open late" from glass tubing Animation · 7 models |
A dark wall where a glowing torch traces a grey glass tube in one continuous line of joined-up script over about 12 seconds; it then lights up pink, with a soft glow round the tube and on the wall, and holds until a click starts it again. The tube is bent as one line rather than letter by letter, there are no electrodes or mounts, and the script is a looping scrawl that does not read as "open late". Moving the pointer moves a faint pool of light on the wall. 2.5 minutes, $0.020. | 2 of 4 | 2.5 min | $0.020 | 89% |
| Pour latte art into a cup of coffee Animation · 7 models |
A dark cup seen at a low angle, with a small cream cloud on a stalk, like a tree or a mushroom, in the middle of the coffee, finished within a few seconds. There is no jug and no pour, the pattern is not a tulip, the cup is a thin ring with a flat brown surface and a faint grey box behind the pattern, and moving the pointer barely changes the light. Two tries: the first stopped unfinished after five minutes, and the second, with thinking off, took 9 seconds. 5.2 minutes and $0.0023 in all.Took 2 tries: stopped mid-page at 131,072 tokens; finished at 131,072 tokens, thinking off. | 0.5 of 4 | 9 s 5.2 min over 2 tries |
$0.002 $0.002 over 2 tries |
0% |
| Carve a swan out of a clear block of ice Animation · 7 models |
A tall blue-grey block that stands unchanged for about ten seconds under the captions "chainsaw rough cutting" and "chiselling the details", then melts into shape in about three seconds and is "finished". No saw or chisel is shown. The result is a dome with two wing bumps sunk into a rounded block, and a thin, segmented neck that ends in a ring with a pin for a beak, more like a hose than a swan. The surface is a smooth, opaque blue-grey with a highlight that shifts with the pointer, not clear ice. It holds and starts again on a click. 2.4 minutes, $0.020. | 2.5 of 4 | 2.4 min | $0.020 | 92% |
| Embroider a bee on a linen patch Animation · 7 models |
A linen patch with a pinked edge, where a bee is filled in over about 15 seconds: striped satin bands for the body, a big yellow thorax, a dark head with a white eye, then a black outline, two pale wings without veins, six legs and two antennae. Close up the fills show diagonal satin stitches and the outlines look like backstitch, and it holds and stitches again on a click. But the outline is one oval round the whole bee, with the thorax sitting inside it as a disc, so it looks like a cartoon more than embroidery, and the pointer mostly moves a broad shadow across the cloth rather than a sheen on the thread. 4.7 minutes, $0.032. | 3.5 of 4 | 4.7 min | $0.032 | 94% |
| Decorate a round birthday cake with piped buttercream Animation · 7 models |
A cream cake seen from above, decorated in about 16 seconds: a double row of pearl beads round the edge, ten pink rosettes that spiral like snail shells, then "Happy Birthday" in bold blue italic letters with a dark edge. It holds and starts again on a click. The order is right, the writing is easy to read, and the light moves across the icing with the pointer, though with the pointer in the middle it burns out the centre of the cake. But the border is beads rather than shells, and the lettering looks typeset rather than piped. 2.9 minutes, $0.028. | 3.5 of 4 | 2.9 min | $0.028 | 93% |
| Cassette recorder in three.js: frontier models, one prompt Animation · 16 models |
Nothing to use: the page stays dark and empty. Its side B label is written as 'AUTUMN '82' inside single quotes, so the apostrophe ends the string early, the whole script fails to parse and nothing is drawn. Every check fails. 2.9 minutes, $0.025. | 0 of 7 | 2.9 min | $0.025 | 85% |
| Holographic trading cards: frontier models, one prompt Animation · 16 models |
"Spring Prompt: First Editions": three glassy purple-to-teal cards in a carousel, with the neighbours angled at the sides: Spriglet, a green bean with a sprout, Puddlekin, a raindrop, and Wispbloom, a smiling pink flower, each with a serif name, an italic flavour line and its number. The card in view tilts up to 12 degrees towards the pointer while the foil colours turn and the glare follows, and two and a half seconds after the pointer stops it sways on its own. A click flips it to a dark back with a numbered medallion and a barcode, and arrows, dots, arrow keys and swipes move between the cards. The creatures are simple, emoji-like shapes and the foil is a soft wash rather than a rainbow. 4.0 minutes, $0.032. | 5 of 5 | 4.0 min | $0.032 | 90% |
| A map of the world from memory Drawing · 16 models |
A green-on-blue map with all seven continents, Greenland, Madagascar, Japan, a few blobs for Indonesia and New Zealand, and labels for every ocean. Africa, South America and Australia are recognisable, but Europe is a lump with no Italy or Scandinavia, the Baltic, Black Sea and Persian Gulf are plain ellipses cut into the land, India is a spike, Asia's north coast is a straight line and Antarctica is a huge lens. The ocean labels are in the right places, but "NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN" runs into "EUROPE" and "SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN" into "SOUTH AMERICA". Two minutes, $0.017. | 3.5 of 4 | 120 s | $0.017 | 94% |
| Draw a unicorn Drawing · 16 models |
A white cartoon unicorn on a lilac background, with a gold horn and a sparkle on top of its head, a pink mane hanging down the back of the neck, a short curly pink tail and a soft ground shadow. It is clean and clearly a unicorn, but the neck is a long upright column, more llama than horse, the body is a large plain oval, and the four legs are short stubs half hidden beneath it. 27 seconds, $0.0041. | 2.5 of 3 | 27 s | $0.004 | 87% |
| The Starry Night, redrawn in SVG Drawing · 16 models |
A landscape version: a tall, smooth, striped green spike for the cypress on the left, a village of tan houses and a church with a spire below, rolling hills drawn with dashed lines, a golden crescent moon with a glow top right, stars like small candle flames and, in the middle, a swirl made of wobbly concentric rings. The parts are in the right places, but the strokes are smooth and even, the swirl is a target rather than a curl, and at about 140 shapes (16 KB) it is a simple illustration. The horizontal sky bands also run past the edges of the picture. 94 seconds, $0.013. | 3 of 4 | 94 s | $0.013 | 83% |
| Ball bouncing in a spinning hexagon Simulation · 16 models |
A plain dark card with a glowing cyan hexagon turning at 0.6 rad/s and a small orange ball, with no controls or trail. The ball falls and its first bounces lose height, and the turning walls keep it hopping; in our log it never came closer to a wall than its own radius and never left. 21 seconds, $0.0029. | 3 of 3 | 21 s | $0.003 | 76% |
| The solar system, to scale in time Animation · 16 models |
A dark starfield with a glowing Sun and eight planets, all labelled, on circular orbits spaced on a log scale, Saturn with its ring, and a small bar with minus, a years-per-second readout, plus and pause. It uses the real periods, so Mercury makes 4.15 laps per Earth year; it opens at half a year a second, minus and plus halve and double that, and pause works. The planets start at random places, there is no date or elapsed time, the inner four crowd round the Sun, and in a short window Neptune's orbit passes behind the speed bar. 31 seconds, $0.0049. | 3 of 3 | 31 s | $0.005 | 83% |
| A product page from one feed row Business · 16 models |
A white card on beige: three socks drawn as thick L-shaped tubes in charcoal, moss and oat, one with a stray round heel behind it, on a large, mostly empty panel; beside them £24.00, an "In stock" pill, one paragraph of copy taken from the feed, colour chips under "One pair of each in every pack", size tiles with the UK ranges and a spec table down to the GTIN. Nothing is invented. No size is chosen at first, so "Add to basket" says "Please select a size first."; with M it reads "Added size M to your basket." and the count goes to 1. 2.7 minutes, $0.023. | 5 of 5 | 2.7 min | $0.023 | 94% |
| A pricing table with a monthly/yearly switch Web page · 16 models |
A light page headed "Pricing", with a Monthly/Yearly pill and three white cards, the Team card outlined in blue on a faint blue tint with no badge. Yearly changes £6 and £11 to £5 and £9 "per person a month, billed yearly" and Monthly puts them back; the features are exactly the brief's, and the four FAQ answers, in rows that open and close, only restate it. Plain and correct, though no card has a sign-up button. 20 seconds, $0.0041. | 4 of 4 | 20 s | $0.004 | 81% |
| Pelican riding a bicycle Drawing · 16 models |
A flat, bright drawing: a white pelican with a closed, smiling eye and a big orange beak and pouch, riding a red bicycle under a yellow sun with speed lines behind. A wing stretches along to the handlebar and an orange leg reaches the pedal, and the bicycle has both wheels, a frame, a chainring, a dotted chain and pedals, with the saddle hidden under the body. Two teal patches on the body look like stray shapes. 31 seconds, $0.0058. | 3 of 3 | 31 s | $0.006 | 83% |
| Newton's cradle Simulation · 16 models |
Five silver balls on single strings in a dark trapezoid frame, in a white card with a one-line hint; R resets. Pull the end ball out to 43 degrees and the far ball swings out to 42 while the middle three stay within a degree, and pulling the second ball brings the first with it, so two-ball swings work too. The fade is slow: the end balls were still swinging about 25 degrees after 20 seconds. 3.3 minutes, $0.021. | 3 of 3 | 3.3 min | $0.021 | 95% |
| A newsletter email that works in email Business · 16 models |
A light, tidy email: a cream header with a leaf drawn in SVG and "HOLLOW & PINE" in spaced capitals, a moss-green "New shade back in stock" block with a "Shop now" button, a four-step washing guide and AUTUMN15 in a dashed box with "Valid until 31 October", all in tables with inline styles at 600 px. Its dark styles keep every part readable. But it adds a "Signature merino blend · all sizes" line, a made-up hollowandpine.co.uk, and an address, "Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK". 10 seconds, $0.0024. | 4 of 5 | 10 s | $0.002 | 64% |
| A landing page for a photo-book app Web page · 16 models |
A cream and teal page ("Your photos, beautifully bound.") with a "Start your book — £19" button in the hero and the header, a grid of pastel tiles around a "Driftwood 40 pages" book, and sections that fade in as you scroll: three steps, four reasons, one price card, three testimonials and a teal closing band. It works at 390 px with nothing spilling over. But it invents a lot: "4.9 on the App Store", a money-back guarantee, free UK delivery, 170gsm FSC paper, named testimonials ("Lucy, Brighton") and a studio in St Ives, and under "One book. One price. Zero surprises." it sells extra copies at £12 each. The quickest page here, at 37 seconds, $0.0075. | 2.5 of 3 | 37 s | $0.008 | 69% |
| The jelly effect: frontier models, one prompt Animation · 16 models |
A glossy pink ball with two highlights on a dark purple page with faint bubbles. A click sends a small ripple round its rim for about half a second. Dragging from off-centre mostly slides the whole jelly after the pointer (a 220 px pull moved it about 120 px) with only a slight bulge on the pulled side; on release it wobbles and is round again within a second, but stays where it was dropped. 93 seconds, $0.013. | 2.5 of 3 | 93 s | $0.013 | 89% |
| Conway's Game of Life Simulation · 16 models |
A dark 80 by 50 board that starts empty, with Play (which turns into Pause), Step, Clear, a speed slider, generation and population counts, and Glider, Pulsar and Gosper Gun buttons that drop the pattern where you next click. The rules are exact: the dropped glider glides, the pulsar repeats every three generations and the gun fires a stream of gliders. Edges are dead, so a glider that reaches one turns into a block. The "Speed" slider is really the delay between generations: dragging it right slows the board from ten generations a second to one every two seconds. 9 seconds, $0.0019. | 3.5 of 4 | 9 s | $0.002 | 51% |
| Flappy Bird in one file Game · 16 models |
A faithful classic: a yellow bird, green pipes, drifting clouds and a striped ground, with a "Flappy" start card. Clicks, taps and Space all flap and gravity feels right; our steering script passed pipes and the score went up one for each, and hitting a pipe or the ground brings up "Game Over" with the score. A tap restarts at 0 straight away, with no pause and no best score. The fastest answer on the page, at 8 seconds, $0.0016. | 4 of 4 | 8 s | $0.002 | 20% |
| Chess with every rule Game · 16 models |
A plain cream and tan board on a dark page, with "White to move." above it and a New Game button below; the chosen piece turns gold and dots show its moves. It refused both illegal moves and a black move on White's turn, played Scholar's mate to "Checkmate! White wins.", castled on both sides and took en passant, and our probes passed too: Black had to answer Qh5+, promotion offers four pieces and the ten-move stalemate ends "Stalemate! It's a draw." There is no move list, undo or flip. 101 seconds, $0.015. | 5 of 5 | 101 s | $0.015 | 84% |
| A category page from a product feed Business · 16 models |
"Rain jackets" with a breadcrumb, a short "Waterproof styles for every forecast" line, a filter panel (brand, colour and size checkboxes, four price bands and "Clear all"), five sorts and a "Showing 12 of 12" count. Every price and rating matches the feed, and every filter, combination and sort we ran returned exactly the right jackets; Little Fell over £150 shows "No products match your selected filters." Every jacket is drawn as the same hooded shape in its colour, the cape included, and the cards do not name the colour, so the pairs read as duplicates. There are no min and max price boxes. 107 seconds, $0.020. | 4 of 4 | 107 s | $0.020 | 90% |
| An animated SVG logo Drawing · 16 models |
On a dark navy card, two cyan swooshes and a few speed streaks draw themselves in, then a thick orange S-shaped stroke with a white eye and a short white beak, then "KESTREL" in heavy white capitals with "SWIFT DELIVERY" spaced out beneath, all still by about 2.6 seconds. CSS only, with system fonts. The name is clear, but the mark reads more as a worm or an eel than a bird. 104 seconds, $0.013. | 4 of 4 | 104 s | $0.013 | 95% |
| An analogue clock that tells the time Drawing · 16 models |
A cream dial in a silver bezel on a dark page, with navy numerals and baton markers, minute ticks, navy hands and a thin red second hand that sweeps. It matched the real clock to the second, and at 1:31 the hour hand sat halfway between 1 and 2. There is no digital readout or date. 36 seconds, $0.0048. | 4 of 4 | 36 s | $0.005 | 86% |
Time and cost are for the answer shown; when it took more than one try, the second line counts every try, and sorting uses every try. Thinking is the share of the answer's output tokens spent reasoning before it wrote.
Tries
1 answer needed more than one try
We ask again when an answer runs out of room, comes back empty, stops mid-page or sends no code: first as it was, then with twice the room, then with thinking off. Each try below, in order.
| Test | Try | What happened | Limit | Output tokens | Time | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pour latte art into a cup of coffee | 1 of 2 | Stopped mid-page | 131,072 | 1,777 | 5.0 min | $0.001 |
| 2 of 2 | Finished, thinking off | 131,072 | 4,712 | 9 s | $0.002 |
Against the other models
Checks passed on each test
Mercury 3's column is marked.
| Test | Claude Fable 5.1 | Kimi K3 | GPT-6.1 Sol | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Muse Spark 1.3 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | GPT-6 Luna | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Muse Wonder Full | Mercury 3 | Mistral Large 4 | Grok 4.7 | MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route) | Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Wonder | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make a stained glass window of a hummingbird and flowers | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 3.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3.5/4Muse Wonder Full: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Mercury 3: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 3/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 2.5/4Muse Wonder: 2.5 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Throw a bowl on a potter's wheel from a lump of wet clay | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3.5/4Muse Wonder Full: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Mercury 3: 3 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 3.5/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3.5 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 2/4Muse Wonder: 2 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Paint a lemon on a blue plate as a thick oil painting on canvas | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder Full: 3 of 4 checks | 3/4Mercury 3: 3 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 3.5/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3.5 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder: 3 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Bend a neon sign that says "open late" from glass tubing | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 2.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3.5/4Muse Wonder Full: 3.5 of 4 checks | 2/4Mercury 3: 2 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 2.5/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 2.5 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder: 3 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Pour latte art into a cup of coffee | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 3/4Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 4 checks | 2.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3.5/4★Muse Wonder Full: 3.5 of 4 checks, our pick | 0.5/4Mercury 3: 0.5 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 3/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 2/4Muse Wonder: 2 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Carve a swan out of a clear block of ice | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 2.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3.5/4Muse Wonder Full: 3.5 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Mercury 3: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 0/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 0 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 2/4Muse Wonder: 2 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Embroider a bee on a linen patch | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 3.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder Full: 3 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Mercury 3: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 0/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 0 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder: 3 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Decorate a round birthday cake with piped buttercream | –Claude Fable 5.1: did not take this test | –Kimi K3: did not take this test | –GPT-6.1 Sol: did not take this test | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 3/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3 of 4 checks | –Muse Spark 1.3: did not take this test | –DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: did not take this test | –GPT-6 Luna: did not take this test | –Claude Haiku 5.5: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder Full: 3 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Mercury 3: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Mistral Large 4: did not take this test | –Grok 4.7: did not take this test | 3.5/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3.5 of 4 checks | –Qwen3.8 Max (0902): did not take this test | –Gemini 3.8 Flash: did not take this test | 3/4Muse Wonder: 3 of 4 checks | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Cassette recorder in three.js | 6.5/7Claude Fable 5.1: 6.5 of 7 checks | 6/7Kimi K3: 6 of 7 checks | 6.5/7GPT-6.1 Sol: 6.5 of 7 checks | 7/7★Claude Opus 5.5: 7 of 7 checks, our pick | 7/7DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 7 of 7 checks | 5.5/7Muse Spark 1.3: 5.5 of 7 checks | 5.5/7DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5.5 of 7 checks | 5/7GPT-6 Luna: 5 of 7 checks | 3.5/7Claude Haiku 5.5: 3.5 of 7 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 0/7Mercury 3: 0 of 7 checks | 0/7Mistral Large 4: 0 of 7 checks | 0/7Grok 4.7: 0 of 7 checks | 0/7MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 0 of 7 checks | 0.5/7Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 0.5 of 7 checks | 0/7Gemini 3.8 Flash: 0 of 7 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Holographic trading cards | 5/5Claude Fable 5.1: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Kimi K3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5★GPT-6.1 Sol: 5 of 5 checks, our pick | 5/5Claude Opus 5.5: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Muse Spark 1.3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5 of 5 checks | 4.5/5GPT-6 Luna: 4.5 of 5 checks | 5/5Claude Haiku 5.5: 5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 5/5Mercury 3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Mistral Large 4: 5 of 5 checks | 4/5Grok 4.7: 4 of 5 checks | 4.5/5MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4.5 of 5 checks | 3/5Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 5 checks | 4.5/5Gemini 3.8 Flash: 4.5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A map of the world from memory | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4GPT-6.1 Sol: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 3.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 4 checks | 2/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 2 of 4 checks | 1.5/4GPT-6 Luna: 1.5 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3.5/4Mercury 3: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Mistral Large 4: 3 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Grok 4.7: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 0.5/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 0.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Draw a unicorn | 2.5/3Claude Fable 5.1: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Kimi K3: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3★GPT-6.1 Sol: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 2.5/3Claude Opus 5.5: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2 of 3 checks | 1.5/3Muse Spark 1.3: 1.5 of 3 checks | 1.5/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1.5 of 3 checks | 1/3GPT-6 Luna: 1 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 2.5 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 2.5/3Mercury 3: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2/3Mistral Large 4: 2 of 3 checks | 2/3Grok 4.7: 2 of 3 checks | 2.5/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 2.5 of 3 checks | 1.5/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1.5 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| The Starry Night, redrawn in SVG | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | 2.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Muse Spark 1.3: 2.5 of 4 checks | 1.5/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1.5 of 4 checks | 3/4GPT-6 Luna: 3 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 2.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3/4Mercury 3: 3 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Mistral Large 4: 2.5 of 4 checks | 1.5/4Grok 4.7: 1.5 of 4 checks | 3/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 4 checks | 2.5/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 2.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Ball bouncing in a spinning hexagon | 3/3Claude Fable 5.1: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Kimi K3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6.1 Sol: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3★Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 1.5/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6 Luna: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 3 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3/3Mercury 3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Mistral Large 4: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Grok 4.7: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 2.5 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| The solar system, to scale in time | 3/3Claude Fable 5.1: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Kimi K3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6.1 Sol: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3★Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6 Luna: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 3 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3/3Mercury 3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Mistral Large 4: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Grok 4.7: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A product page from one feed row | 5/5Claude Fable 5.1: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Kimi K3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5GPT-6.1 Sol: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5★Claude Opus 5.5: 5 of 5 checks, our pick | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Muse Spark 1.3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5GPT-6 Luna: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Claude Haiku 5.5: 5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 5/5Mercury 3: 5 of 5 checks | 4/5Mistral Large 4: 4 of 5 checks | 4.5/5Grok 4.7: 4.5 of 5 checks | 5/5MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Gemini 3.8 Flash: 5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A pricing table with a monthly/yearly switch | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Muse Spark 1.3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4GPT-6 Luna: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/4Mercury 3: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Mistral Large 4: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4Grok 4.7: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 3/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 4 checks | 4/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Pelican riding a bicycle | 3/3Claude Fable 5.1: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Kimi K3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3★GPT-6.1 Sol: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 3/3Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 3 checks | 2/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 2 of 3 checks | 2.5/3GPT-6 Luna: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 2 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3/3Mercury 3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Mistral Large 4: 3 of 3 checks | 2/3Grok 4.7: 2 of 3 checks | 2.5/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 2.5 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Newton's cradle | 3/3Claude Fable 5.1: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Kimi K3: 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3GPT-6.1 Sol: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3★Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6 Luna: 3 of 3 checks | 1/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 1 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3/3Mercury 3: 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Mistral Large 4: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Grok 4.7: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A newsletter email that works in email | 4/5Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 5 checks | 4/5Kimi K3: 4 of 5 checks | 4.5/5★GPT-6.1 Sol: 4.5 of 5 checks, our pick | 4.5/5Claude Opus 5.5: 4.5 of 5 checks | 4/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 5 checks | 3.5/5Muse Spark 1.3: 3.5 of 5 checks | 4/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 5 checks | 4.5/5GPT-6 Luna: 4.5 of 5 checks | 4/5Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/5Mercury 3: 4 of 5 checks | 4/5Mistral Large 4: 4 of 5 checks | 4/5Grok 4.7: 4 of 5 checks | 4/5MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 5 checks | 3.5/5Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3.5 of 5 checks | 3.5/5Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3.5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A landing page for a photo-book app | 2/3Claude Fable 5.1: 2 of 3 checks | 3/3Kimi K3: 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3GPT-6.1 Sol: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Claude Opus 5.5: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2/3Muse Spark 1.3: 2 of 3 checks | 2/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 2 of 3 checks | 2.5/3GPT-6 Luna: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 2.5 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 2.5/3Mercury 3: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Mistral Large 4: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3★Grok 4.7: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 3/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3 of 3 checks | 2/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 2 of 3 checks | 3/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| The jelly effect | 3/3Claude Fable 5.1: 3 of 3 checks | 2.5/3Kimi K3: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3GPT-6.1 Sol: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3★Claude Opus 5.5: 3 of 3 checks, our pick | 2.5/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2/3Muse Spark 1.3: 2 of 3 checks | 2.5/3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 2.5 of 3 checks | 2.5/3GPT-6 Luna: 2.5 of 3 checks | 1/3Claude Haiku 5.5: 1 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 2.5/3Mercury 3: 2.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Mistral Large 4: 3 of 3 checks | 3/3Grok 4.7: 3 of 3 checks | 1.5/3MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 1.5 of 3 checks | 3/3Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 3 checks | 1/3Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1 of 3 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Conway's Game of Life | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Muse Spark 1.3: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4GPT-6 Luna: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 3.5/4Mercury 3: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3/4Mistral Large 4: 3 of 4 checks | 4/4Grok 4.7: 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 3.5 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Flappy Bird in one file | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Muse Spark 1.3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6 Luna: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/4Mercury 3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Mistral Large 4: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Grok 4.7: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| Chess with every rule | 5/5Claude Fable 5.1: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Kimi K3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5★GPT-6.1 Sol: 5 of 5 checks, our pick | 5/5Claude Opus 5.5: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Muse Spark 1.3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5GPT-6 Luna: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Claude Haiku 5.5: 5 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 5/5Mercury 3: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Mistral Large 4: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Grok 4.7: 5 of 5 checks | 5/5MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 5 of 5 checks | 5/5Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 5 of 5 checks | 0/5Gemini 3.8 Flash: 0 of 5 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| A category page from a product feed | 3.5/4Claude Fable 5.1: 3.5 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Kimi K3: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 3/4Muse Spark 1.3: 3 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6 Luna: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/4Mercury 3: 4 of 4 checks | 3/4Mistral Large 4: 3 of 4 checks | 0/4Grok 4.7: 0 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 3/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3 of 4 checks | 3/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| An animated SVG logo | 4/4★Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Muse Spark 1.3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4GPT-6 Luna: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/4Mercury 3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Mistral Large 4: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Grok 4.7: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |
| An analogue clock that tells the time | 4/4Claude Fable 5.1: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Kimi K3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4★GPT-6.1 Sol: 4 of 4 checks, our pick | 4/4Claude Opus 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4Muse Spark 1.3: 4 of 4 checks | 4/4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 4 of 4 checks | 2/4GPT-6 Luna: 2 of 4 checks | 4/4Claude Haiku 5.5: 4 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder Full: did not take this test | 4/4Mercury 3: 4 of 4 checks | 3/4Mistral Large 4: 3 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Grok 4.7: 3.5 of 4 checks | 4/4MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free route): 4 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Qwen3.8 Max (0902): 3.5 of 4 checks | 3.5/4Gemini 3.8 Flash: 3.5 of 4 checks | –Muse Wonder: did not take this test | ·Gemini 4 Argon: not checked |