Mercury API Pricing 2026
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Overview
Mercury was released on June 26, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.250 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 128K tokens. API access is available through Inception.
Pricing Comparison
Compare Mercury with 10 similar models by price.
Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)
11 models
Provider | Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Coding | MMLU | GPQA | Context | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$0.250 | $1.000 | — | — | — | 128,000 | |||
$0.200 | $0.200 | 4.6 | 24.5 | 17.7 | 32,768 | |||
$0.200 | $0.200 | — | 23.1 | 3.9 | 32,768 | |||
$0.200 | $0.200 | — | — | — | 8,192 | |||
$0.200 | $0.200 | — | 19.1 | 3.5 | 32,768 | |||
$0.207 | $0.828 | 74.7 | 81.3 | 76.4 | 256,000 | |||
QW | $0.210 | $0.630 | — | — | — | 7,500 | ||
DS | $0.210 | $0.320 | 55.4 | 83.6 | 73.8 | 163,840 | ||
DS | $0.210 | $0.790 | 52.9 | 83.6 | 75.1 | 163,840 | ||
QW | $0.220 | $0.950 | — | — | — | 262,144 | ||
TN | $0.250 | $0.850 | — | — | — | 163,840 |
* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.
Compare Providers
Mercury is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.
Provider Pricing
1 models
Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
Inception Best Price | $0.250 | $1.000 | 100.0% |
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