Mercury 2 API pricing
As of October 22, 2026, Inception Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, the median of 1 providers on OpenRouter, with cached input at $0.025 per million.
Mercury 2 benchmarks and specs · Every Inception model's price
- Input, per million tokens$0.25
- Output, per million tokens$0.75
- Cached input, per million$0.025
- Context window128K tokens
- Max output50K tokens
- Output speedNot measured
What a request costs
Three fixed token mixes at the list price, without cache or batch discounts. For a whole month, use the calculator.
| Workload | Tokens | One request | 1,000 requests | Fits the context window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat turn | 1K input + 500 output tokens | $0.0006 | $0.625 | Yes |
| Repository review | 50K input + 3K output tokens | $0.015 | $14.75 | Yes |
| Agent loop | 200K input + 10K output tokens | $0.058 | $57.50 | No, it would need splitting |
| Solved coding task | One SWE-bench Verified attempt, divided by the share that succeed | Not computable | Not computable |
Price history
The price of Mercury 2 here is the median across 1 providers on OpenRouter, so we do not track price changes for it.
Cheaper models as good as Mercury 2
Mercury 2 has no overall or coding score, so we make no quality claim against it.
Mercury 2 pricing questions
- How much does Mercury 2 cost per million tokens?
- $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, as listed on OpenRouter on October 22, 2026.
- Does Mercury 2 support prompt caching?
- Yes. OpenRouter lists cached input at $0.025 per million tokens, against $0.25 for uncached input.
- Has the price of Mercury 2 changed?
- The price of Mercury 2 here is the median across 1 providers on OpenRouter, so we do not track price changes for it.