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Mercury 2

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The cheapest provider for Mercury 2 is Inception at $0.375 per 1M tokens (blended), charging $0.25 per 1M input and $0.75 per 1M output tokens. It is served by a single provider. Context window: 125K tokens. Prices tracked since Oct 3, 2026.

Best price
$0.375
at Inception
Input / output
$0.25 / $0.75
per 1M tokens
Providers
1
no spread
7 days
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best price
30 days
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best price
Context
125K
tokens

Providers

Active offers ranked by blended price. Bars are relative to the most expensive.

  • InceptionCheapest
    $0.375
    $0.25 in · $0.75 out
    best
    125K ctx100% uptime
Blended = (3 × input + output) / 4.

Price history

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Other pricing

Cache, reasoning and per-call fees. Token rates per 1M; others per unit.

Offered byCache read
Inception$0.025

Change log

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About this model

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...
Released
Mar 4, 2026
First tracked
Oct 3, 2026
Canonical slug
inception/mercury-2-20260304