Mercury 2 pricing & price history
Mercury 2 by Inception costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, with a 128K token context window.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
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About Mercury 2
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...
FAQ
How much does Mercury 2 cost?
Mercury 2 by Inception costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, with a 128K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0009.
What is the context window of Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 supports up to 128,000 tokens of context and up to 50,000 output tokens per request.
Has Mercury 2’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Mercury 2 being deprecated?
Yes — Mercury 2 is scheduled to be retired on 2026-11-08. Consider migrating to one of the alternatives on this page.
What are cheaper alternatives to Mercury 2?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 ($0.0434/$0.30), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29).