Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Mercury 3
Prices checked
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Mercury 3 split the 5 rounds this table counts: the maker's two prices, the cheapest price, the maker's blended price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
GoogleGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$0.09/M tokensCheapest price, at Kilo Gateway · 4.2¢ per 1,000 pages
InceptionMercury 3
1M context · tool calling
$0.16/M tokensInception's own price · 8.1¢ per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.10/M
$0.10/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$0.40/M
$0.35/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$0.09/M at Kilo Gateway
none below the maker
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.18/M
$0.16/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
4.2¢
8.1¢
Context
1M tokens
1M tokens
Open weights
no
no
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
yes
no
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
17 Jun 2025
16 Oct 2026
Providers selling it
28
9
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
no provider to check
Providers selling both · 7
LLMTR$0.10 / $0.16
Nous Portal$0.17 / $0.16
OpenRouter$0.17 / $0.16
Vercel AI Gateway$0.17 / $0.16
NanoGPT$0.26 / $0.08
TrustedRouter$0.18 / $0.17
Kilo Gateway$0.09 / $0.33
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, then Mercury 3, per million tokens.
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Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
- LLMTR · 50% cheaper · $0.10 / $0.35 $0.20 / $0.70
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Mercury 3?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, at $0.09 per million tokens against $0.16 for Mercury 3, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 4 Nov 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: $0.09 at Kilo Gateway. Mercury 3: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $0.16 is the number to beat.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 7 providers sell both: LLMTR, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, NanoGPT, TrustedRouter, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is LLMTR.
- Which holds more context?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, at 1M tokens against 1M.
Prices exclude tax, read 4 Nov 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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