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Inception: Mercury 2 — pricing & benchmarks

By inception · Updated 2026-07-24 · cheap high-volumestep-by-step reasoning

Inception: Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, with a 128K context window. It is best suited for cheap high-volume, step-by-step reasoning, and is available through one OpenAI-compatible Appmo API key.
$0.25Input / 1M
$0.75Output / 1M
128KContext
—Intelligence
—Coding
—GPQA %
—Speed tok/s

What Inception: Mercury 2 is used for

Inception: Mercury 2 is best suited for cheap high-volume, step-by-step reasoning. Access it through one Appmo API key alongside 390 other models — Appmo's optimizer can route to it automatically when it is the best value for a request.

Use it via the Appmo API (OpenAI-compatible)

curl https://appmo.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APPMO_KEY" \
  -d '{"model":"inception/mercury-2","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

FAQ

How much does Inception: Mercury 2 cost?
Inception: Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens ($0.375 blended), as of 2026-07-24. Prices are expected to fall as competition increases.

What is Inception: Mercury 2 best for?
Inception: Mercury 2 is best suited for cheap high-volume, step-by-step reasoning.

How do I use Inception: Mercury 2?
Send requests to Appmo's OpenAI-compatible endpoint with model id "inception/mercury-2" and one API key — no separate provider account needed.