Mercury 2.5
- Released
- Sep 8, 2026
- Tracked since
- 2026-09-24
Intelligence index12.3Ranks 324 of 664 models with this metric
Coding index—Not tested
Agentic index—Not tested
Capability profile
5 axes vs. site averageMercury 2.5
Site average
Some dimensions have no data yet — marked on the chart
Pricing
per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.250
- Output
- $0.750
- Cache read
- $0.030
Performance
- Output throughput
- 807 tokens/sec
- Time to first token
- 3.06s
- First answer token
- 3.06s
- End-to-end response
- 3.68s
History
1Intelligence index
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output
Unchanged across 62 days of records
Output throughput
770→807
Cheaper at this level
Models with a comparable intelligence index and a lower output price- Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)
AlibabaIntelligence 13.1$0.150−80%
- 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%