Inception: Mercury 2

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memory์‹ฌ์ธต ์ถ”๋ก 

Inception: Mercury 2์€ ์ถ”๋ก ๊ณผ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์— ๋งž์ถ˜ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊นŠ์€ ์ถ”๋ก ๊ณผ ๊ณ„ํšใ€๋‚ฎ์€ ์ง€์—ฐ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์  ์ถ”๋ก , 128K tokens์˜ ์ปจํ…์ŠคํŠธ, ์ €๋น„์šฉ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด reasoning, analysis, and hard problem solving์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋•์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ง€์—ฐ, ๋น„์šฉ, ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ์ž˜ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ถœ๋ ฅ, ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ๋ฐฐํฌ, ํ™•์žฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ€์— ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์‘๋‹ต, ๋„“์€ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์ œํ’ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šด์˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์‘๋‹ต, ๋„“์€ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์ œํ’ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šด์˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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 โ€” pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.

FAQ

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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 โ€” 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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