Mercury Edit 2 pricing.

prices as of · 1 providers · 1 prices

Inception's Mercury Edit 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 Edit 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.

reasoning128k contextreleased 30 Mar 2026

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

pages a month

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 Edit 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 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

  • Inception

    The 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

Frequently asked

Who sells Mercury Edit 2 cheapest?
No provider sells Mercury Edit 2 below Inception's price with a reason we can point at. 1 providers sell it at or above list, and those prices are all on this page.
Is Mercury Edit 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 Edit 2 hold?
128,000 tokens in one call, which is about 128k.
How does Mercury Edit 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.
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