Mercury 2 is a large language model from Inception, released on February 24, 2026. It accepts text input.

When was Mercury 2 released?

Inception released Mercury 2 on February 24, 2026.

How much does Mercury 2 cost?

Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens through the Inception API. Cached input costs $0.025 per 1M tokens. Prices are from Inception's official pricing as of October 5, 2026.

What is Mercury 2's context window?

Mercury 2 has a 128K-token context window and can generate up to 50K output tokens.

How does Mercury 2 score on benchmarks?

Mercury 2 has 3 cited benchmark scores, including WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) 43.2%, LMArena Elo 1343.3 Elo and LMArena WebDev (LMArena) 1170 Elo. Each score links to its source.

Mercury 2

Inception·Pending·Released 2026-02-24text

Context128k

Max output50k

Input / 1M$0.25 ↗

Output / 1M$0.75 ↗

Cached in$0.025

Benchmarks3

Benchmarks

Cited public sources · rank is exact-benchmark, apples-to-apples

WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)

#61/9243.2% ↗

LMArena Elo

#132/1411343.3 ↗

LMArena WebDev (LMArena)

#92/941170 ↗

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Mercury 2 FAQ

What is Mercury 2?: Mercury 2 is a large language model from Inception, released on February 24, 2026. It accepts text input.
When was Mercury 2 released?: Inception released Mercury 2 on February 24, 2026.
How much does Mercury 2 cost?: Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens through the Inception API. Cached input costs $0.025 per 1M tokens. Prices are from Inception's official pricing as of October 5, 2026.
What is Mercury 2's context window?: Mercury 2 has a 128K-token context window and can generate up to 50K output tokens.
How does Mercury 2 score on benchmarks?: Mercury 2 has 3 cited benchmark scores, including WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) 43.2%, LMArena Elo 1343.3 Elo and LMArena WebDev (LMArena) 1170 Elo. Each score links to its source.

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