Inception: Mercury 2

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryPensiero profondo

Inception: Mercury 2 è un modello testo pensato per ragionamento e risoluzione dei problemi. Unisce ragionamento e pianificazione approfonditi e bassa latenza e inferenza efficiente, un contesto di 128K tokens e un profilo a basso costo per un lavoro affidabile in reasoning, analysis, and hard problem solving.

Input

$0.25/1M

Output

$0.75/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.10/1M

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Technical specifications

Mercury 2 at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

50,000

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

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Released

Jan 2026

Training cutoff

Sep 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Mercury 2

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Mercury 2 costs roughly $49 per month. Input is $0.25 /1M tokens and output is $0.75 /1M tokens.
Mercury 2 has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Mercury 2 supports deep step-by-step reasoning, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Mercury 2 was released in January 2026, with training data cut off around September 2025.
Models in a similar class include Seed 1.6, Seed-2.0-Lite, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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