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Mercury 2 Pricing
Inception · inception-mercury-2
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
Output / 1M tokens
$0.750
Context window
128k tokens
≈ 171 pages of text
Max output
50k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0006
1,000 requests / month$0.6/mo10,000 requests / month$6.00/mo100,000 requests / month$60.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Mercury 2 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Supports 128k context and 50k output at low per-token cost, enabling economical long-document processing and batch workloads.
The business tradeoff
Unknown provider with no established ecosystem or tooling; performance consistency and reasoning depth remain unverified relative to major vendors.
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.