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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 $0.750 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$0.750
Cached$0.025
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
ToolsCaching

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.250
$0.750
128,000
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Mercury costs $0.000250 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000750 per 1,000 output tokens.
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