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Inception: Mercury 2
inception·inception/mercury-2-2·GA·Closed·mercury series
Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use
At a glance
Reference price$0.25 / $0.75 per 1M
Cache read $0.025 · Kilo Gateway
Lowest paid$0.25 / $0.75
Kilo Gateway Gateway
Context128,000
Output limit50,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-03-04 / 2026-03-04
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo Gateway inception/mercury-2 | Gateway | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.025 | — | 128,000 | 50,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Kilo Gateway$60.50
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = high
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended