Mercury 2
inception/mercury-2- Inception
- Family · Mercury 2
- Released 20 Feb 2026
- Text → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON
Not on OSMEXO yet
Spec & list price
Context125K
Max output50K
Input / 1M$0.25
Output / 1M$0.753× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence10.8#236/489
Coding31.1#109/196
Usage
Tokens / day143.3M▼ 40% 7d
Usage rank#289
Requests / day27.0K
Tool calls / req0.08
Per request · 30 days
Avg input3.4K0.2× median
Avg output4820.7× median
Cache hit46%0.7× median
Reasoning share50%0.9× median
Tool-call failures14%7.4× median
Consumption
Peak 2.1B 17 OctLow 108.8M 31 OctRank today #289
News & trends
Trending · 14 days · Mercury 2 family
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across providers, latest day
Output speed#6/333374 tok/s5.6× faster than median
First token#900.62 s1.7× quicker than median
#16 cheapest of 34 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Family progress
Intelligence Index
- Family releases12.3
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · medium
- Tokenizer
- Other
- Moderation
- none
Reasoning effort
- high
- medium · default
- low
- none
Request parameters 10
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- max_tokens
- stop
When to use
Best for
- Latency-sensitive chat and agent loops
- Following strict output instructions
- Tool calling with structured output
- Adjustable reasoning for mixed workloads
Think twice for
- Image or multimodal input
- Self-hosting (closed weights)
- Very long document analysis
Same family
Mercury 2- 12.3
Alternatives
other vendors · similar capability- 8.5
- 13.1
- 6.7
- 15.6
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