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Mercury 2

by Inception · family mercury · listed Feb 2026RT

Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$0.25
Output$0.75
Cache read$0.025
Cache write—

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Mercury 2Mercury 2: $0.25 per 1M tokens$0.25DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.435 per 1M tokens$0.435Gemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.7 Flash: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Medium 3.5: $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $5.00 per 1M tokens$5.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $5.00 per 1M tokens$5.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Mercury 2Mercury 2: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87 per 1M tokens$0.87Gemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.7 Flash: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Medium 3.5: $7.50 per 1M tokens$7.50Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $25.00 per 1M tokens$25.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $30.00 per 1M tokens$30.00

On the record

Model id
mercury-2
Context window
128K tokens
Max output
50K tokens
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
yes
Tool calls
yes
Open weights
no
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2025
Released
2026-02-24
Last updated
2026-02-24
Provider docs
platform.inceptionlabs.ai/docs

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