How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost per 1M tokens?

Inception: Mercury 2 costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.025 per 1M.

What is Inception: Mercury 2's context window?

Inception: Mercury 2 accepts up to 128,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 50,000 output tokens.

Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Inception: Mercury 2?

Yes. MythoMax 13B is $0.080 per 1M input tokens versus $0.250 for Inception: Mercury 2, with a 8,192 token context window.

Where does this Inception: Mercury 2 price come from?

From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

Inception: Mercury 2 pricing

Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel… Inception: Mercury 2 from OpenRouter costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.025 per 1M. Context window 128,000 tokens.

API id inception/mercury-2 · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$0.250

Input / 1M tokens

$0.750

Output / 1M tokens

$0.025

Cached input / 1M

128K

Context window

Inception: Mercury 2 specifications

Provider: OpenRouter
API id: inception/mercury-2
Model type: general-purpose
Context window: 128K tokens
Max output: 50K tokens
Currency: USD
Price source: Provider API
Last checked: 2026-09-25

What Inception: Mercury 2 costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
Workload	Input tokens	Output tokens	Estimated cost
Short chat turn	1,000	500	$0.0006
Document summary	50,000	2,000	$0.01
1M tokens in, 200K out	1,000,000	200,000	$0.40

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost per 1M tokens?: Inception: Mercury 2 costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.025 per 1M.
What is Inception: Mercury 2's context window?: Inception: Mercury 2 accepts up to 128,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 50,000 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Inception: Mercury 2?: Yes. MythoMax 13B is $0.080 per 1M input tokens versus $0.250 for Inception: Mercury 2, with a 8,192 token context window.
Where does this Inception: Mercury 2 price come from?: From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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