Inception
Mercury 2.5 API pricing
Mercury 2.5 is Inception’s model on the API market, released 8 Sept 2026. Prices are per million tokens in USD, as last read from the price list.
$0.040Input / 1M
$0.15Output / 1M
260KContext
66KMax output
Specification
USD per million tokens- Provider
- Inception
- Model id
inception/mercury-2.5- Input
- $0.040
- Output
- $0.15
- Cached input
- $0.004
- Context window
- 260K tokens
- Maximum output
- 66K tokens
- Takes
- text
- Returns
- text
- Tool use
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Released
- 8 Sept 2026
- First tracked
- 17 Sept 2026
At $0.040 per million input tokens, Mercury 2.5 is dearer than 12 of the 326 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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