- Mercury 2 — $0.62 sample workload
Inception LLM API Models & Pricing
Browse Inception LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.
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Provider shortlist
Use Inception as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.
Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.
- Mercury 2 — 128K
Inception comparisons
Search Inception comparisons| Comparison | Sample Cost Winner | Larger Context | Newest Release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aion-2.0 vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Aion-2.0 | |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Claude 3.5 Haiku | |
| 🔥Claude Opus 4.6 vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Claude Opus 4.6 | |
| 🔥Claude Opus 4.7 vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Claude Opus 4.7 | |
| Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Claude Sonnet 4 | |
| 🔥Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Mercury 2 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus vs Mercury 2 | Mercury 2 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus |
Cross-Provider Alternatives
Open alternatives hubUse this shortlist when Inception is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.
| Alternative | Provider | Sample Cost | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥Owl Alpha | OpenRouter | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1.05M |
| New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| 🔥Laguna M.1 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) | NVIDIA | $0 | $0 | $0 | 1M |
| gpt-oss-120b (free) | OpenAI | $0 | $0 | $0 | 131.07K |
| Laguna XS.2 (free) | Poolside | $0 | $0 | $0 | 262.14K |
Inception model catalog
Browse all models| Model | Prompt | Output | Context | Popularity |
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| Mercury 2 | $0.25 | $0.75 | 128K | #143 |