Mercury 2 pricing.
prices as of · 9 providers · 9 prices
Inception's Mercury 2 holds 128k tokens of context and has a reasoning mode. Closed weights: only Inception and its licensed partners run it, so every other price below resells the same service.
Mercury 2 costs $0.25 in and $0.75 out per million tokens from Inception, and no provider goes below it with a reason we can point at.
Inception list price
$1.50/M tokens
$0.25 in · $0.75 out
read · 58% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$1.50
Nobody goes below Inception's price for a reason we can point at, so the list price is the one to beat. Every other price is below.
What it costs for your work
Inception list price
$0.195a month
cheapest we can explain
none
difference
no list price
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Mercury 2
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Inception's price.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
InceptionThe price Inception charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Same price as the maker
8 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $0.75in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.26 / $0.79in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.31 / $0.94in / out per M
1.25×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Mercury 2 cheapest?
- No provider sells Mercury 2 below Inception's price with a reason we can point at. 9 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
- Is Mercury 2 open weights?
- No. Inception keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Inception's own or a resale of it. A price below list here needs a published reason, or it is listed and never ranked.
- How much context does Mercury 2 hold?
- 128,000 tokens in one call, which is about 128k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Mercury 2 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $1.50 per million tokens, Inception's price is 58% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.