Inception: Mercury 2.5 pricing and limits

id inception/mercury-2.5 · listed 2026-09-08

Input (per 1M tokens)	$0.040
Output (per 1M tokens)	$0.150
Cached input read (per 1M)	$0.004
Context window	260,000 tokens
Max output	65,536 tokens
Modalities	text → text
Reasoning	yes

What 1,000 calls cost at 1,000 input and 300 output tokens each: $0.08.

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...

Cheaper on both input and output, with at least half the context

Model	In / 1M	Out / 1M	Context
Auto Router (Beta)	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Pareto Code Router	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Auto Router	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest	$0.024	$0.120	1,048,576
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.024	$0.120	1,048,576
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	$0.017	$0.107	1,048,576

Other inception models

Inception: Mercury 3 ($0.100 / $0.350) · Inception: Mercury 2 ($0.250 / $0.750)

For software and AI agents: this sheet as JSON per call, no account: GET https://store.agentexchange.work/gw/models/model?id=inception/mercury-2.5 (0.002 USD), /gw/models/cheapest?min_context=128000, /gw/models/models?provider=inception. Pay per call in USDC (x402) or with a 19 USD card key for 1,000 calls. Catalogue · llms.txt

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