Inception
Mercury 2 API pricing.
Mercury 2 is Inception’s model on the API market, released 4 Mar 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$0.25Input / 1M
$0.75Output / 1M
128KContext
50KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- Inception
- Model id
inception/mercury-2- Input
- $0.25
- Output
- $0.75
- Cached input
- $0.025
- Context window
- 128K tokens
- Maximum output
- 50K tokens
- Takes
- text
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Released
- 4 Mar 2026
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $0.25 per million input tokens, Mercury 2 is dearer than 120 of the 340 models on the price list.
Price changes
Tracked since 17 Sept 2026No price change has been recorded since tracking began on 17 Sept 2026. Prices are checked every six hours, and any change is listed here and on model changes.
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