--- title: "Inception Mercury collection — distinct SKUs · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/families/mercury/ description: "Compare the accepted Inception Mercury catalogue rows by exact checkpoint, capability and price. This collection organises related names; official equivalence, shared licences and shared benchmark results are not established." --- # Inception Mercury collection — distinct SKUs · Undominated.ai > Compare the accepted Inception Mercury catalogue rows by exact checkpoint, capability and price. This collection organises related names; official equivalence, shared licences and shared benchmark results are not established. Inception / lineage # Inception Mercury collection Compare the accepted Inception Mercury catalogue rows by exact checkpoint, capability and price. This collection organises related names; official equivalence, shared licences and shared benchmark results are not established. Family research reviewed 2026-09-22 · Catalogue evidence; official lineage not established Standard models 2 Independently rated 1 / 2 Known token rates 2 / 2 Global balanced frontier 0 [Compare the members ↓](#members)[Read source notes](#source-notes)[All families](https://undominated.ai/families/) [Compare models](https://undominated.ai/compare/) Comparison context Choose up to three standard models in Compare. Requirements and prompt length apply in Compare. This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. This collection organises accepted catalogue identities. It does not certify equal weights, a shared licence, benchmark equivalence or current availability on every serving platform. ## Compare exact catalogue rows USD per 1M tokens. In / out are listed base rates; expand billing conditions before planning a request. LMArena scores measure the general preference board, not success on your engineering task. Unknown stays unknown. ### Catalogue members | Model | LMArena | Input / output $/M | Context / max output | Capabilities & conditions | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Mercury 2.5](https://undominated.ai/models/inception__mercury-2.5/) [Check](https://undominated.ai/check/inception__mercury-2.5/) [Compare](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=inception%2Fmercury-2.5) [Full evidence ↗](https://undominated.ai/models/inception__mercury-2.5/) inception/mercury-2.5 | Unrated | $0.040 / $0.150 Listed base rates Billing details Cached input $0.0040 Separate reasoning Not separately listed Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 260,000 Output 65,536 | text Tools yes · reasoning yes Weights unknown Released 2026-09-08 | | [Mercury 2](https://undominated.ai/models/inception__mercury-2/) [Check](https://undominated.ai/check/inception__mercury-2/) [Compare](https://undominated.ai/compare/?models=inception%2Fmercury-2) [Full evidence ↗](https://undominated.ai/models/inception__mercury-2/) inception/mercury-2 | 1357.6 ±10.6 interval half-width Effort: default | $0.250 / $0.750 Listed base rates Billing details Cached input $0.025 Separate reasoning Not separately listed Tool, media, cache-write and service-tier charges may add dimensions. Read the full model evidence. | 128,000 Output 50,000 | text Tools yes · reasoning yes Weights unknown Released 2026-03-04 | ## Sources and scope Membership is supported by the accepted marketplace catalogue. This collection has no independently checked official lineage source in this research pass. Source review does not refresh a price or transplant a benchmark score. [Read the method](https://undominated.ai/methodology/) and [correction policy](https://undominated.ai/corrections/). ## Questions this page answers Are the Inception Mercury collection models interchangeable? No. These are exact catalogue rows with separate capability, pricing and rating evidence. Compare the checkpoint, serving endpoint, reasoning settings and required input types. A family name does not establish equivalent behaviour. How many Inception rows are compared here? 2 standard rows, of which 1 have an accepted LMArena general score and 2 have known input and output token rates. 0 related free or batch variants are listed separately. What do the prices and frontier counts mean? Prices below are listed US dollars per million input or output tokens, before request-specific context tiers and other billing dimensions. The frontier count comes from the global balanced view. Neither a family price range nor a benchmark difference proves your task will be cheaper or more successful. How current are the official notes? The linked family research was reviewed 2026-09-22. That date is separate from each accepted catalogue observation and each vendor’s effective date. An official note applies to its named platform, not automatically to every reseller. ## Continue your investigation - [Compare exact models](/compare/) - [Inspect model evidence](/models/) - [Check lifecycle notices](/deprecations/) - [Estimate local capacity](/self-host/)