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Inception: Mercury 2 API Pricing

Inception: Mercury 2 is an API model from inception. It costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.025. Its context window is 128,000 tokens with up to 50,000 output tokens. A workload of 10M input + 2M output tokens costs about $4 per month.

Input

$0.25

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.75

per 1M tokens

Cached input

$0.025

per 1M tokens

Context window

128K

128,000 tokens

Blended (80/20)

$0.35

per 1M tokens

Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost for a real workload?

At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Inception: Mercury 2 costs about $4 ($2.5 input + $1.5 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.

What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 2?

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini (batch) — $0.2 in / $0.8 out per 1M
Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air — $0.13 in / $0.85 out per 1M
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next — $0.12 in / $0.8 out per 1M
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro — $0.3045 in / $0.609 out per 1M
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B — $0.351 in / $0.555 out per 1M
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch) — $0.125 in / $0.75 out per 1M

Where to run Inception: Mercury 2

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost?

Inception: Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 22, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $4.

What is the context window of Inception: Mercury 2?

Inception: Mercury 2 has a context window of 128,000 tokens and can return up to 50,000 output tokens per response.

What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 2?

Cheaper models include OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini (batch) ($0.2 in / $0.8 out), Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air ($0.13 in / $0.85 out), Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next ($0.12 in / $0.8 out). See the full list on this page.

Is Inception: Mercury 2 free to use?

No. Inception: Mercury 2 is a paid model at $0.25 input / $0.75 output per 1M tokens. 21 free models are listed on the free models page.

Provider: inception · Model ID: inception/mercury-2 · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 22, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices