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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?

Mercury 2 pricing
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
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Output modalities
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How does Mercury 2 score on benchmarks?

Mercury 2 benchmark scores
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

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