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Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...
How much does Inception: Mercury 2.5 cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Inception: Mercury 2.5 costs about $0.7 ($0.4 input + $0.3 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 2.5?
- Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024) — $0.0375 in / $0.15 out per 1M
- Inference.net: Schematron V2 Turbo — $0.03 in / $0.15 out per 1M
- Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 — $0.06 in / $0.12 out per 1M
- Amazon: Nova Micro 1.0 — $0.035 in / $0.14 out per 1M
- OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch) — $0.0296 in / $0.136 out per 1M
- Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest — $0.0413 in / $0.12 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Inception: Mercury 2.5 cost?
Inception: Mercury 2.5 costs $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $0.7.
What is the context window of Inception: Mercury 2.5?
Inception: Mercury 2.5 has a context window of 260,000 tokens and can return up to 65,536 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inception: Mercury 2.5?
Cheaper models include Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024) ($0.0375 in / $0.15 out), Inference.net: Schematron V2 Turbo ($0.03 in / $0.15 out), Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 ($0.06 in / $0.12 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Inception: Mercury 2.5 free to use?
No. Inception: Mercury 2.5 is a paid model at $0.04 input / $0.15 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: inception · Model ID: inception/mercury-2.5 · Modality: text->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices