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Open-Source Alternatives to INMercury 2.5

The best open-weight, self-hostable alternatives to Mercury 2.5 in 2026 — compared on price, context window and capabilities. Run them locally and cut API costs.

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The best open-weight alternatives to Mercury 2.5

Mercury 2.5 is a proprietary, API-only model. These open-weight models can be self-hosted, run offline and used at a fraction of the cost — here's how the top ones stack up.

North Mini Code (free) Open

Cohere · 256K ctx · Free/M out

Within 2.4 pts of Mercury 2.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index

North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family. A sparse mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active, it is optimized...

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