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Mercury 2.5 Pricing
Inception · inception-mercury-2-5
Input / 1M tokens
$0.040
Output / 1M tokens
$0.150
Context window
260k tokens
≈ 347 pages of text
Max output
65,536 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0001
1,000 requests / month$0.108/mo10,000 requests / month$1.08/mo100,000 requests / month$10.80/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Mercury 2.5 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Handles extended contexts up to 260k tokens with 65k output at very low per-token cost, suitable for document-scale analysis and generation.
The business tradeoff
Unknown provider with no established ecosystem or third-party tooling; reasoning depth and reliability remain unproven relative to major vendors.
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Sep 8, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.