Mercury 2.5 Preview: API pricing, providers and specs
Mercury 2.5 Preview is a text model by Inception. One provider serves it: AIHubMix, at $0.75 /1M.
How Mercury 2.5 Preview compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.75 /1M against a median of $1.10; 44% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 260K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
Mercury 2.5 Preview prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AIHubMix | $0.20/1M | $0.75/1M | $0.02/1M | 260K |
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inception
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 260K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 66K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- —
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
Alternatives to Mercury 2.5 Preview
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury 2.5 Previewthis model | $0.75/1M | 260K | — | 1 |
 GLM-5.3 | $1.10/1M | 1.05M | 1623 | 49 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Qwen3.8 27B | $0.50/1M | 262K | 1591 | 33 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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Mercury 2.5 Preview FAQ
The lowest price for Mercury 2.5 Preview is $0.75 /1M, at AIHubMix.
Mercury 2.5 Preview reads up to 260K tokens per request and writes up to 66K.
No. Mercury 2.5 Preview is only available through an API; Inception does not publish its weights.
1 API providers serve Mercury 2.5 Preview. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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