Inception Labs

Mercury 2

Type
language model
Context
128K tokens
Max output
50K
Released
1 January 2024
Knowledge cutoff
January 2025
API string
mercury-2

Prices by provider

Provider Input, $ per 1M Output, $ per 1M In our data since
inception $0.25 $0.75 31 Jul 2026
Kilo Code $0.25 $0.75 31 Jul 2026
NanoGPT $0.25 $0.75 31 Jul 2026
OpenRouter $0.25 $0.75 31 Jul 2026
Vercel $0.25 $0.75 31 Jul 2026
Venice AI $0.313 $0.938 31 Jul 2026

Only the base tier and only per-token prices are shown. Batch, discounted and cached rates, as well as prices per image or per second of video, do not go into this table: they cannot stand in the same column as a price per million tokens.

The date in the last column is the day this price first entered our collection. The price may well be older: before that day we simply were not recording it. It has not changed since — otherwise a new row with a new date would stand in its place.

Measurement results

Task set Result Run conditions Measured by
Arena Score, programming 1,392.87 1,372–1,413
Arena Score in English 1,379.3 1,364–1,395
Arena Score, hard prompts 1,362.65 1,349–1,376
Arena Score, overall 1,357.65 1,347–1,368
Arena Score, expert questions 1,355.77 1,319–1,393
Arena Score, multi-turn dialogue 1,355.52 1,330–1,381
Arena Score, long queries 1,328.02 1,308–1,348
Arena Score, instruction following 1,322.92 1,303–1,343
Arena Score in Russian 1,303.88 1,273–1,334
Arena Score, creative writing 1,295.3 1,269–1,321
Arena Score, web development 1,166.34 1,141–1,192