Mercury 2

inception/mercury-2

Maker: Inception Labs, United States
Released: 2026-02-24
Family: mercury
Weights: closed
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code
Cheapest offering: OpenRouter, about $0.000501 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
OpenRouter	`inception/mercury-2`	ga	Input: $0.25 Output: $0.75 Cache read: $0.025 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 128,000 tokens Max output: 50,000 tokens	`input.text` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed

Quality scores

Basis	Score (0–1)	Raw	Measured	Source
`lmarena:webdev`	0.049	1170.3787	2026-10-28	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech

Use it from the API

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Look up this model

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/inception/mercury-2' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Resolve text.chat on its providers

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=openrouter' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).