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Mercury 2.5

Inception · Proprietary · bench-align-v5

Canonical idmercury-2-5
Overall scoreUnavailable
Context window260K tokens
Release date2026-09-08
Access typeProprietary
Blended $/1M$0.067575% input / 25% output

Capability shape

Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.

Capability evidence

AgenticUnavailable
Coding35
Knowledge47.1
Reasoning67.7
Multimodal & GroundedUnavailable
Instruction Following80.1
MathUnavailable

Runtime service evidence

Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.

Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.

Evidence key: ObservedUnavailable

Runtime measurements
MeasurementValueObservedLast goodEvidence
Time to first tokenUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
ThroughputUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.

Endpoint and price matrix

Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.

Price components
ComponentUSDEvidence
Input / 1M tokens$0.04
Output / 1M tokens$0.15
Cache read / 1M tokens$0.004
Cache write / 1M tokensUnavailable
Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output)$0.0675
Self-hosted listingInception lists Mercury 2.5 at $0.04/M input, $0.004/M cached input, and $0.15/M output during its 80% launch offer. Standard rates are $0.20/M input, $0.02/M cached input, and $0.75/M output. No promotion end date is stated on the first-party models page as of September 8, 2026.The rates above are a hosted price matched from another provider, not a first-party list price.

Workload-aware monthly cost example

10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.

Modelled monthly cost$0.19
Modelled tokens2.82M
Open the simulatorChange this workload

Benchmark record

8 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.

Knowledge

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkValueTasksDifficultyProvenance
GPQA-D
GPQA Diamond
79.0Graduate-level science questionsGraduate levelTrinity-Large-Thinking: Scaling an Open Source Frontier Agent
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy
22.0Knowledge questionsBroad knowledgeArtificial Analysis model benchmarks
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate
67.0Knowledge questionsFactualityArtificial Analysis model benchmarks

Coding

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkValueTasksDifficultyProvenance
SciCode
Scientific Code Benchmark
38BenchLM

Reasoning

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkValueTasksDifficultyProvenance
AA-LCR
Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning
68.0Long-context reasoning tasksLong-context reasoningArtificial Analysis model benchmarks

Instruction Following

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkValueTasksDifficultyProvenance
IFBench
Instruction Following Benchmark
77BenchLM

Agentic

Agentic benchmarks
BenchmarkValueTasksDifficultyProvenance
DeepSearchQA
DeepSearchQA
34.0Agentic browsing and list-answer questionsAgentic web researchMuse Spark Eval Methodology
τ³-bench results
τ³-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation
96.0Corrected customer-service tasks plus knowledge and voice evaluation modesLong-horizon, multimodal, and knowledge-aware tool useOfficial τ³-bench repository and release notes

Lifecycle and limitations log

Lifecycle events the source associates with this model, plus what this profile does not claim.

No lifecycle event references this model.

That is not evidence the model has no lifecycle plan — only that this source published none.

What this profile does not claimValues are reproduced exactly as their sources published them, in the units those sources declared; none are converted, interpolated, or averaged across providers. Any field marked unavailable was attempted and not returned — the attempt timestamp is in each badge. Last attempted fetch for this model’s score: 2026-09-17 17:17 UTC.