InceptionMercury 2
- Released
- Feb 20, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-07-23
Intelligence index13.8Ranks 291 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index31.1Ranks 162 of 259 models with this metric
Agentic index1.6Ranks 122 of 156 models with this metric
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageMercury 2
Site average
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.250
- Output
- $0.750
- Cache read
- $0.030
Performance
- Output throughput
- 842 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 4.20s
- First answer token
- 4.20s
- End-to-end response
- 4.79s
History
6Intelligence index
21.4→13.8
Output
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output throughput
982→842
Cheaper at this level
Models with a comparable intelligence index and a lower output price- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420 (Non-reasoning)
DeepSeekIntelligence 18.9$0.200−73% - Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning)
AlibabaIntelligence 13.7$0.200−73% - Hy3-preview (Reasoning)
TencentIntelligence 22.7$0.210−72% - Hy3-preview (Non-reasoning)TencentIntelligence 17$0.210−72%
- Ling 3.0 Flash
InclusionAIIntelligence 24.9$0.220−71%