Mercury 2.5
inception/mercury-2.5 · family mercury · in: text → out: text · price provider-declared (via models.dev). Capabilities: tools reasoning text.
$0.34
Blended $/1M (3:1)
$0.2
Input $/1M
$0.75
Output $/1M
$0.95
1M in + 1M out
$0.02 −90%
Cache read $/1M
#2534 of 8,501
Cheapest rank
- Provider
- Inception (
inception) - Kind
- text (outputs text)
- Context
- 260,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Capabilities
- tools reasoning text
Same model, other providers
“Mercury 2.5” is offered by 5 providers — cheapest-effective first. Vercel AI Gateway is the cheapest at $0.07 blended.
| Provider | Input | Output | Blended | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.07 | 260k |
| OpenRouter | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.07 | 260k |
| Inception (this) | $0.2 | $0.75 | $0.34 | 260k |
| AI/ML API | $0.2116 | $0.7935 | $0.36 | 260k |
| Venice AI | $0.25 | $0.9375 | $0.42 | 260k |
Call it
jishie indexes & prices models; it does not proxy inference.
Most providers are OpenAI-compatible — point base_url at Inception and pass this model id:
curl $BASE_URL/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"mercury-2.5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'
Route programmatically with MCP find_model / get_model, or fetch this record free (no wallet):