Inception: Mercury 2.5
🇺🇸 Inception · Mercury 2.5
Overview
Inception: Mercury 2.5 is a large language model API from Inception, part of its Mercury 2.5 model family. At $0.040 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget tier — among the cheaper options for high-throughput or cost-sensitive workloads. Output tokens cost about 4× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. A large 260K-token context window (≈390 pages of text) lets it take in whole books, large codebases, or lengthy transcripts in a single call. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $0.040 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $0.150 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.0040 |
- Provider
- Inception
- Model Family
- Mercury 2.5
- Version String
- inception/mercury-2.5
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- Text
- Context Window
- 260,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- 65,536 tokens
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.0040 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $0.150 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $0.040 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- Inception: Mercury 2.5 Input price: $0.04/M tokens
- Inception: Mercury 2.5 Output price: $0.15/M tokens
- Context window: 260,000 tokens
- Provider: Inception
- Model family: Mercury 2.5
- Modalities: Text
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily