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Mercury vs Mercury 2

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mercury wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Mercury 2 wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
Price Advantage
Mercury
Benchmark Advantage
Mercury 2
Context Window
Mercury 2
Speed
Mercury 2

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMercuryMercury 2
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMercuryMercury 2
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorInceptionInception
ReleasedJun 2025Mar 2026

Mercury Modalities

Input
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Output
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Mercury 2 Modalities

Input
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Output
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Frequently Asked Questions

Mercury has cheaper input pricing at $0.25/M tokens. Mercury has cheaper output pricing at $0.75/M tokens.
Mercury 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 30.6, compared to Mercury's score of N/A.
Mercury has a 128,000 token context window, while Mercury 2 has a 128,000 token context window.
Mercury does not support vision. Mercury 2 does not support vision.