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 — —