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Mercury 2.5

Inception
Release Date
2026-09-08
Parameters
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Context Length
260K
Modalities
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Capability Radar

12
general
39
coding
7
reasoning
29
science
17
agents
0
multimodal

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Code Ranking107
81.0
AA
General Ranking598
17.0
AA
Science407
36.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))

No benchmark data available

AA Evaluation Indices

(Artificial Analysis)
Lcr(Artificial Analysis)
71.7
Scicode(UIUC + Argonne National Lab (2024))
38.5
Intelligence Index(Artificial Analysis)
12.3
Hle(Center for AI Safety + Scale AI (2025))
11.8

LLM Stats Category Scores

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))

No category score data available

Pricing

Input Price$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0.75 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0.375 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.004 / 1M tokens

Speed

Tokens/sec769.5
Time to First Token2.83s
Time to Answer2.83s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

5 providers

Cheapest: InceptionMost Expensive: Kilo Gateway
ProviderInputOutput
1InceptionCheapest
$0.04
$0.15
2OpenRouter
$0.04
$0.15
3Vercel AI Gateway
$0.04
$0.15
4Venice AI
$0.05
$0.1875
5Kilo Gateway
$0.2
$0.75

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