Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy.
Experts
$112/hr
Average contracted rate
539k
Roles created
$4M+
Daily payouts
Research
Industry partner benchmarks
Mercor collaborates with enterprises to build benchmarks that measure AI capabilities relevant to their specific industries, products, and workflows.
Legal
Open-source benchmark that evaluates agent capabilities for supporting legal work.
Harvey LAB
Attorney-built benchmark of 1,749 real legal tasks across 24 practice areas, graded on finished work products like memos and redlines.
Grok 4.7xHigh
19.5% ±4.5%
Muse Spark 1.2xHigh
19.4% ±4.6%
Opus 5Max
17.8% ±1.5%
Fable 5.1Max
17.4% ±4.2%
Muse Spark 1.3Max
15.0% ±4.1%
Accounting
Long-horizon, cross-application tasks in professional accounting
APEX-Accounting
Measuring AI agents ability to complete professional accounting tasks across tools like accounting software, spreadsheets, and PDFs.
Opus 5.5Max
61.8% ±4.0%
Fable 5.1Max
61.0% ±3.7%
GPT-6 AstraMax
57.9% ±3.8%
Fable 5Max
56.4% ±3.6%
Opus 5Max
54.5% ±3.9%
Software
Real-world software engineering across integration and observability
APEX-SWE
Measures AI performance on real-world software engineering tasks, from bug fixes to feature builds. Built in collaboration with Cognition.
Opus 5.5Max
67.6% ±5.9%
Sonnet 5.5Max
66.4% ±6.1%
Opus 5Max
63.7% ±6.4%
Fable 5.1Max
63.6% ±6.3%
Fable 5Max
58.8% ±6.4%
Banking
Open-source fintech customer-support benchmark testing knowledge-intensive agents.
τ³-Banking
Fintech benchmark from Sierra AI that tests whether agents can handle customer-support tasks over 700 interconnected policy documents, graded on real backend outcomes like dispute resolution and account management.
Opus 5.5Max
55.0% ±8.2%
Fable 5.1Max
54.0% ±8.9%
Sonnet 5.5Max
54.0% ±8.9%
Muse Spark 1.3xHigh
52.2% ±8.6%
Gemini 3.8 FlashHigh
48.8% ±8.8%
Our benchmarks
APEX is our family of independent research benchmarks published to measure and track frontier AI capabilities on economically valuable work.
APEX-Agents
Long-horizon, cross-application tasks in professional services
Tests whether AI agents can complete multi-hour professional tasks across investment banking, corporate law, and management consulting, using real tools in Google Suite.
Gemini 4 ArgonHigh
82.4% ±4.3%
Sonnet 5.5Max
75.5% ±4.7%
Opus 5.5Max
73.5% ±4.9%
Fable 5.1Max
68.6% ±4.9%
Gemini 3.7 FlashHigh
67.8% ±5.1%
APEX-1
Single-turn text tasks
Tests whether frontier models can perform economically valuable tasks across professional domains including investment banking, corporate law, management consulting, and medicine.
Muse Spark 1.2xHigh
75.6% ±2.3%
Muse Spark 1.3xHigh
73.9% ±2.3%
Muse Spark OpenxHigh
73.9% ±2.3%
Fable 5.1Max
73.8% ±2.7%
Muse Spark 1.1xHigh
73.8% ±2.2%
Enterprise
Frontier AI, built on your expertise
Mercor helps enterprises turn their expertise into production AI, new revenue streams, and the human intelligence behind the world’s leading models.
Human data & evals
- 30k+ experts: physicians, lawyers, engineers, consultants.
- Benchmarks and RL environments built on real professional work (APEX).
- Human evaluation at the scale frontier labs rely on.
Data monetization
- Create a new revenue stream from the workflow data your business already generates.
- Automated anonymization masks 60+ categories of sensitive identifiers.
- Your organization retains full control over what data is shared.
Enterprise AI
- Identify high-value AI opportunities by mapping enterprise workflows and institutional knowledge.
- Deploy production AI with embedded Forward Deployed Engineers and enterprise-grade integrations.
- Measure and improve AI performance with a platform for context, evaluations, and continuous optimization.
