Major Release Inception · Released
Mercury 2
What is Mercury 2?
Mercury 2 is a Major Release AI model from Inception, released on February 20, 2026. It has a 128K tokens context window, costs $0.25 per million input tokens, and scores 1347 on Chatbot Arena Elo. It is available via the company's API.
Inception Mercury 2 — AA Intelligence Index 32.8, 128K tokens context, reasoning model.
How much does Mercury 2 cost?
| Metric | Price |
|---|---|
| input per mtok | $0.25 |
| output per mtok | $0.75 |
| cache read per mtok | $0.03 |
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What context window does Mercury 2 have?
- Context window
- 128K tokens
- Max output
- 16K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
How does Mercury 2 score on benchmarks?
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 77.0% |
| HLE | 15.5% |
| SciCode | 38.7% |
| TAU2-bench | 70.8% |
| TerminalBench-Hard | 26.5% |
| IF-Bench | 69.8% |
| LiveCodeBench Reasoning | 36.3% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 32.8 |
| Chatbot Arena Elo | 1347 |
Benchmark scores verified .