Model Services/inception/Mercury 2.5 Preview

Mercury 2.5 Preview

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Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.04

Output / 1M tokens

$0.15

Record updated 2026-10-05

Modality:LLM

Context:260,000 tokens

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Scope

Input

Output

Details

OpenRouter

Unified API Router

Standard

$0.04

$0.15

260k context · 66k max output

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How much does Mercury 2.5 Preview cost per 1M tokens?▼

Mercury 2.5 Preview is priced at $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.0040/1M on openrouter. Check provider terms before deployment.

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Mercury 2.5 Preview supports up to 260,000 tokens context with a max completion limit of 65,536 tokens.

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