Mercury 2 (Inception): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by olud.ai.
Prices update automatically — checked hourly against provider list prices.
Independent benchmark scores for Mercury 2, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
Mercury 2 is a commercial AI model by Inception. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed hourly from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.
Mercury 2 is an AI language model from Inception. It is a proprietary model, available through an API. It scores 21.4 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Mercury 2 is not free: it costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 77%, Humanity's Last Exam 15.5%, Long Context Reasoning 36.3%, SciCode 38.7%, IFBench 69.8%, τ²-Bench 70.8%, τ-Bench Banking 9.9%, Terminal-Bench 27.3%, Terminal-Bench Hard 26.5%. It is particularly used for code generation.
It generates about 937.6 tokens per second, with a median 4.15s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.