How much does Mercury 2 cost per token?

Mercury 2 is priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, per OpenRouter as of Jul 8, 2026.

What is Mercury 2's context window?

Mercury 2 supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, per Inception.

What are the alternatives to Mercury 2?

By OpenRouter usage, comparable models include Hy3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and MiniMax M3. Side-by-side comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

ModelsInception

Mercury 2

Name: Mercury 2
Author: Inception

openrouter

Context

128K

tokens

Released

Mar 4, 2026

on OpenRouter

Pricing

Price per million tokens

Input $/MTok

$0.25

OpenRouter · Jul 8, 2026

Output $/MTok

$0.75

OpenRouter · Jul 8, 2026

Cache read $/MTok

$0.025

OpenRouter

Current Mercury 2 prices per million tokens across tracked sources.
Source	Tracked slug	In $/MTok	Out $/MTok	Cache read	Cache write	Context	Effective	Last Δ (in)
OpenRouter	inception/mercury-2	$0.25	$0.75	$0.025	—	128K	Jul 8, 2026	—
models.dev	nano-gpt/mercury-2	$0.25	$0.75	$0.025	—	128K	Jul 8, 2026	20%

latest tracked price per source · Δ = most recent input-price move within that source

2 sources tracking

Input $/MTok

Output $/MTok

per-source step lines · $/MTok

history since Jul 8, 2026

Specs

Context & availability

Mercury 2 specifications.
Provider	Inception
Context window	128K tokens
Listed on OpenRouter	Mar 4, 2026
Tracked price sources	OpenRouter · models.dev
OpenRouter slugs	inception/mercury-2 · inception/mercury-2-20260304

source: OpenRouter model catalog + tracked price feeds

id: mercury-2

Usage

Share of OpenRouter tokens

90-day daily

usage share pending — this model isn't in the tracked OpenRouter model rankings yet

Benchmarks

Benchmark results

Benchmark scores for Mercury 2.
Benchmark	Configuration	Score	Date	Source
no benchmark results attributed to Mercury 2 yet

scores as published by each benchmark; configurations differ — compare within a row's benchmark only

Alternatives

Similar models

Alternatives to Mercury 2 by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity.
#	Model	Tokens/day	7d Δ	Head-to-head
1	Hy3Tencent	857.5B	—	vs Mercury 2
2	DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek	806.2B	6.6%	vs Mercury 2
3	MiniMax M3MiniMax	665.9B	9.8%	vs Mercury 2
5	DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek	530.6B	50.5%	vs Mercury 2

ranked by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity

snapshot Jul 7, 2026

FAQ

Mercury 2 FAQ

How much does Mercury 2 cost per token?: Mercury 2 is priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, per OpenRouter as of Jul 8, 2026.
What is Mercury 2's context window?: Mercury 2 supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, per Inception.
What are the alternatives to Mercury 2?: By OpenRouter usage, comparable models include Hy3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and MiniMax M3. Side-by-side comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

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