Mercury 2.5: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Mercury 2.5 costs $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens, with a 260K context window. One of the cheapest models here — below 95% of the rating on output price. Suited to high volume, where a wrong answer is cheap to retry.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.04 / $0.15

Context window

260K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Mercury 2.5 is an AI model from Inception, priced at $0.04 input and $0.15 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 95% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 260K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, multilingual, proprietary API. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.04 / $0.15per 1M tokens, in / out

Context260K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorInceptionall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 95% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$0.12~~AED 0 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.06~~AED 0 per month~~

With caching on input$0.11~~AED 0 per month~~

Standard$1.23~~AED 4 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.61~~AED 2 per month~~

With caching on input$1.14~~AED 4 per month~~

Standard$6.13~~AED 22 per month~~

With batch −50%$3.06~~AED 11 per month~~

With caching on input$5.67~~AED 21 per month~~

Standard$24.50~~AED 90 per month~~

With batch −50%$12.25~~AED 45 per month~~

With caching on input$22.70~~AED 83 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Mercury 2.5 sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Qwen3.7 Flash

Cheaper

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.03 / $0.131M tokens

Ministral 3 8B 2512

Closest match

Mistral AI

$0.15 / $0.15262.1K tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Step up

DeepSeek

$0.088606 / $0.1772121.05M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

General text generation and conversation across languages.

Poor fit

Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.
Integrations that depend on structured function calls.

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Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Mercury 2.5 cost?

$0.04 / $0.15 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 0.15 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Mercury 2.5?

260K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Mercury 2.5 do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Mercury 2.5 a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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