Mercury 2

inception/mercury-2-20260304

Inception: Mercury 2 is a text‑only model from Inception released on 2026‑02‑24. It supports up to 128 000 tokens of context, includes tool integration and reasoning capabilities, and is priced at $0.25 per M input tokens and $0.75 per M output tokens. The model’s weights are not publicly available.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning

At a glance

providerinception
releasedFeb 24, 2026
context128K
input / M$0.25

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
128K tokens
Max output
50K tokens
Input price
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.75 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.025 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text → text
Knowledge cutoff
Released
Feb 24, 2026

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. This means the available task-specific evidence did not support a ranking yet—not that the model was reviewed and rejected.

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

LMArena WebDev
1164 Elo2026-07-16
LMArena WebDev
1164 Elo2026-07-20

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