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Mercury 2 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: March 9, 2026 at 08:02 PM

Overview

Mercury 2 was released on March 4, 2026. 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
Output795 tok/s
TTFT3.59s
median latency
Capabilities
Caching

Pricing Comparison

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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
77.0
128,000
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* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
32.8 (79th pct)
Coding
30.6 (77th pct)
Math
-
MMLU Pro
-
GPQA
77.0 (77th pct)
LiveCodeBench
-
AIME
-
Aider
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Mercury 2 costs $0.000250 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.000750 per 1,000 output tokens.
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