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Mercury API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

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.

Context Window
128K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.250
Output$1.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Tools

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
Try
$0.200
$0.200
34.4
9.3
32,768
Try
$0.200
$0.200
4.6
24.5
17.7
32,768
Try
$0.200
$0.200
23.1
3.9
32,768
Try
$0.200
$0.200
8,192
Try
$0.207
$0.828
74.7
81.3
76.4
256,000
Try
$0.210
$0.630
131,072
Try
$0.210
$0.790
52.9
83.6
75.1
163,840
Try
$0.220
$1.000
58.5
78.8
61.8
262,144
Try
$0.250
$1.250
15.4
200,000
Try
$0.250
$0.850
163,840
Try

* 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.

1
Providers
$0.250
Cheapest Input/M
$1.000
Cheapest Output/M
Inception
Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
Inception
Inception
Best Price
$0.250
$1.000
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Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mercury costs $0.000250 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001000 per 1,000 output tokens.
Mercury is available from 1 provider(s). Inception offers the best price.
We compare Mercury with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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