| Provider | Inception |
|---|---|
| Model ID | inception/mercury-2 |
| Prompt Price per 1M tokens | $0.25 |
| Completion Price per 1M tokens | $0.75 |
| Sample Workload Cost 1M input + 500K output | $0.62 |
| Context Window | 128K |
| Release Date | |
| Popularity | #143 |
| Popularity Signal | 627M tokens |
Mercury 2
Inception API model specs with normalized input price, output price, context window, sample workload cost, and related comparisons.
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Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens
Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output
Budget brief
Mercury 2 is estimated at $0.62 for the standard workload.
Mercury 2 is best suited for cost-sensitive production traffic. A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.62.
Input price$0.25per 1M tokens
Output price$0.75per 1M tokens
Context window128Kreported maximum
Popularity#143627M tokens signal volume
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Lower-cost alternatives
Cross-provider candidates with a lower standard 1M input plus 500K output estimate.
| Model | Provider | Sample Cost | Context | Why it is here | Next Step |
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| 🔥Owl Alpha | OpenRouter | $0 | 1.05M | Lower standard workload estimate from another provider. | Open model Compare |
| New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | 1M | Lower standard workload estimate from another provider. | Open model Compare |
| 🔥Laguna M.1 (free) | Poolside | $0 | 262.14K | Lower standard workload estimate from another provider. | Open model Compare |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | 1M | Lower standard workload estimate from another provider. | Open model Compare |
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| Model | Provider | Sample Cost | Context | Why it is here | Next Step |
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| No lower-cost same-provider swap is currently tracked for this model. | |||||
Larger-context upgrades near this budget
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| Llama 4 Scout | Meta | $0.25 | 10M | More context while staying near this model's sample-cost band. | Open model Compare |
| 🔥Owl Alpha | OpenRouter | $0 | 1.05M | More context while staying near this model's sample-cost band. | Open model Compare |
| 🔥DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.18 | 1.05M | More context while staying near this model's sample-cost band. | Open model Compare |
| 🔥MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | $0.24 | 1.05M | More context while staying near this model's sample-cost band. | Open model Compare |
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...
Mercury 2 is best suited for cost-sensitive production traffic.
A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.62.
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