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Mercury 2

Inception · released 5 months ago

Mercury 2 is a Inception model with a 128K token context window — about 180 pages of text. It reads Text and replies in Text. It can show its reasoning before it answers.

$0.287

input / 1M tokens

$0.863

output / 1M tokens

128K

context — about 180 pages

0.21¢

a client proposal

Pricing

Input
$0.287 per million tokens
Output
$0.863 per million tokens
Cached input
$0.029 per million tokens

Billed from your Alyph wallet. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs — last checked August 9, 2026.

The numbers

Provider
Inception
Released
5 months ago (2026-03-04)
Context window
128K tokens — about 180 pages
Max output
50K tokens per reply
Input
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking before answering

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What a task costs

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Mercury 2

Inception

0.1¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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Questions, answered

How much does Mercury 2 cost on Alyph?

Mercury 2 costs $0.287 per million input tokens and $0.863 per million output tokens on Alyph. A typical task — 5K tokens in, 800 out — works out to about 0.21¢. Billed from your Alyph wallet, with hard spending limits. Prices can change when the provider changes theirs; this page was last checked on August 9, 2026.

What is Mercury 2's context window?

128K tokens — about 180 pages. Replies can be up to 50K tokens long.

Can Mercury 2 read images and files?

Mercury 2 is text-only. The canvas still serializes uploads into plain text, so you can work with files — but it cannot see images.

Does Mercury 2 show its reasoning?

Yes. Mercury 2 can expose its thinking before the final answer, so you can watch how it got there.

Test Mercury 2 against Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

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