Mercury 2
mercury-2
Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use
Specification
most-agreed values
Context
128K
Max output
50K
Released
2026-02-24
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01-01
Retires
—
Open weights
no
Input
text
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · most-agreed
Input
$0.25
Output
$0.75
Cache read
$0.025
Available from 8 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| inception · inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| kilo · inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| nano-gpt | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| openrouter · inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| vercel · inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| aimlapi · inception | $0.2645 | $0.7935 | $0.0265 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
| venice | $0.3125 | $0.9375 | $0.0312 | — | 128K | 50K | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi · inception | Cache read | $0.0344 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi · inception | Cache read | $0.0265 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi · inception | Input | $0.3438 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi · inception | Input | $0.2645 |
| 2026-10-13 | aimlapi · inception | Output | $1.0315 |
| 2026-10-23 | aimlapi · inception | Output | $0.7935 |