The best open-weight, self-hostable alternatives to Mercury 2 in 2026 — compared on price, context window and capabilities. Run them locally and cut API costs.
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Mercury 2 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.
Within 1.6 pts of Mercury 2 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...
North Mini Code (free) vs Mercury 2 →Within 2.4 pts of Mercury 2 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 4.4× cheaper per million output tokens
gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases. It activates 5.1B parameters per forward pass and is optimize
gpt-oss-120b vs Mercury 2 →Live ranking of open-weight models with pricing, context windows and capabilities.
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