Mercury 2
Mercury 2 is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Inception, released February 20, 2026. The context window is 125K tokens. API price: $0.25 input / $0.75 output per million tokens.
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Lab
Inception
Released
February 20, 2026
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
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Context
125K
Price / M tokens
$0.25 / $0.75 in / out
Epoch ECI
not yet rated
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Mercury 2 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
Links
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