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Mercury 2.5

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

$0.068 / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out
Independent LMArena score
Not independently rated
Context window
260K
Maximum output
65.54K
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Published input price
$0.040 / 1M tokens
Published output price
$0.150 / 1M tokens
Pricing kind
fixed

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Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
Input$0.040/M
Output$0.150/M
Cached input$0.0040/M
Cache writeUnknown/M
Cache write 1hUnknown/M
ReasoningUnknown/M

Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

SellerInputOutputPrecisionUptime (1d)
Inceptioninception
Endpoint terms
Cached input /M
$0.0040
Context limit
260,000 tokens
Output limit
65,536 tokens
Tools
Listed by endpoint
Reasoning
Listed by endpoint
Promotional discount
80% · already included in these rates
Uptime · last 30 minutes
100.00%
$0.040 $0.150 undeclared 99.97%

Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

Capability

Context window260K
Max output66K
Input modestext
Tool useyes
Reasoningoptional
Open weightsUnknown

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-09-23
Quality dataunrated

Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

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What does Mercury 2.5 cost?

$0.040/M in, $0.150/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

Does Mercury 2.5 have an independent quality score?

Mercury 2.5 has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

What beats Mercury 2.5?

Mercury 2.5 has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Mercury 2.5?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

Does a missing score mean Mercury 2.5 scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

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