Mercury 2.5 pricing.
Prices checked
Mercury 2.5 costs $0.20 in and $0.75 out per million tokens from Inception; the cheapest price is $0.07 at Nous Portal, checked .
Inception's own price
Inception
$0.20 in · $0.75 out
62% below the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
Nous Portal
$0.04 in · $0.15 out
80% less than Inception, and the provider says why.
Every provider selling Mercury 2.5
- 1
$0.04 in · $0.15 out
$0.07/M tokens - 2
$0.20 in · $0.75 out
$0.34/M tokens - 3
$0.20 in · $0.75 out
$0.34/M tokens - 4Costs more
$0.21 in · $0.79 out
$0.36/M tokens - 5
$0.25 in · $0.94 out
$0.42/M tokens
Not ranked
Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, from a catalog we could not read reliably, or a free tier, which is a limit rather than a price. Why
$0.04 in · 0.4¢ out
$0.03/M tokens$0.04 in · $0.15 out
$0.07/M tokens$0.04 in · $0.15 out
$0.07/M tokens$0.04 in · $0.15 out
$0.07/M tokens$0.04 in · $0.16 out
$0.07/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at Inception's own price
A month at Nous Portal, the cheapest
What you save
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.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below Inception's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Credits
- Priced in credits or points that convert to dollars, so the rate moves when the conversion does.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
- Not ranked
- Below the maker's price on a closed model with nothing to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Listed, and never a pick.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what Mercury 2.5 does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Mercury 2.5's cheapest price, $0.07 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Mercury 2.5 cheapest?
- Nous Portal, at $0.04 in and $0.15 out per million tokens, checked 31 Oct 2026. Priced in credits or points that convert to dollars, so the rate moves when the conversion does.
- Is Mercury 2.5 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 Inception's here needs a published reason, or it is listed and not ranked.
- How much context does Mercury 2.5 hold?
- 260,000 tokens in one call, which is about 260k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Mercury 2.5 compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.34 per million tokens, Inception's own price is 62% below the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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