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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
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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 21, 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. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: inception · Model ID: inception/mercury-2 · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices