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Mercury 2API
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM).
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.38 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 84% of the 220 commercial models tracked here
- 3 of 3 Inception models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Mercury 2, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
About this model
Mercury 2 is a commercial AI model by Inception. The specifications below are tracked automatically: pricing is refreshed daily from public list prices, so the numbers on this page reflect the current cost of using the model through its API.
Frequently asked questions
What is Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 is an AI language model from Inception. It is a proprietary model, available through an API.
Is Mercury 2 free?
Mercury 2 is not free: it costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens. Open-weight alternatives can be self-hosted at no per-token cost.
What is Mercury 2 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 77%, Humanity's Last Exam 17.1%, Long Context Reasoning 43.7%, SciCode 37.7%, IFBench 69.8%, τ²-Bench 70.8%, τ-Bench Banking 9.5%, Terminal-Bench 27.3%, Terminal-Bench Hard 26.5%.