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
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 20, 2026
Measured evidence
Public benchmark record
- Design Arena Coding
- 1022 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena UI
- 998 Elo2026-10-20
- Design Arena Website
- 1036 Elo2026-10-20
- LMArena Creative Writing
- 1289 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Instruction Following
- 1328 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Long Query
- 1330 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Text
- 1343 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena Text Factuality
- 1368 Elo2026-10-15
- LMArena WebDev
- 1171 Elo2026-10-19
LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.
Task evidence
How broad is the support?
Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.
- Best LLM for Frontend & UIEstablished evidence
82% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for CodingEstablished evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 2 independent sources. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence
67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
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- Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence
56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence
50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence
36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 3 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence
27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Value LLMProvisional evidence
25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingProvisional evidence
23% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence
22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence
21% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Document SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence
20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Debugging & Code ReviewProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence
17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence
14% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI). 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence
12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence
10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence
8% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI). 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
- Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence
7% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI). 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.
Recommendation coverage
Where this model appears
Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.
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