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Mercury 2.5

InceptionProprietaryReasoningProvisionalReleased Sep 8, 2026Input: text
Compare with Ornith-1.5-35B-A3BSource scores ↗OpenRouter ↗
Overall score
34.0
Rank 166 of 222 · 19.6–48.3
Context window
260K
260,000 tokens
Price per 1M tokens
$0.040 in · $0.15 out
Source: BenchLM
Blended price
$0.068
3:1 input:output tokens
Output speed
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Not measured yet

Category scores

Scores per capability area with the model's rank among ranked models in that category.

  1. 1Instruction following#5881.1
  2. 2Reasoning71.7
  3. 3Knowledge44.5
  4. 4Coding36.7
Higher is better. #N is the model's rank in that category, where it is eligible to be ranked.

Benchmark results (4)

As reported in system cards, papers and public evaluations. Position compares this model with every other model reporting the same benchmark.

Agentic & tool use

τ³-bench results96.0#1 of 23
DeepSearchQA34.0#20 of 20

Coding

SciCode38.0#16 of 23

Instruction following

IFBench77.0#16 of 42

Pricing by source

USD per 1M tokens.

SourceInputOutputCached in
List price (BenchLM)$0.040$0.15$0.004
OpenRouter inception/mercury-2.5$0.040$0.15$0.004

Inception lists Mercury 2.5 at $0.04/M input, $0.004/M cached input, and $0.15/M output during its 80% launch offer. Standard rates are $0.20/M input, $0.02/M cached input, and $0.75/M output. No promotion end date is stated on the first-party models page as of September 8, 2026.

Speed

Measured by us through OpenRouter (median of trials).

Not measured yet.

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