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Inception · Mercury

Mercury 2.5

Closed weightsGenerally availableNewproprietary

Inception's Sept 2026 reasoning model, notable for very high measured output speed.

AA Intelligence
12.3#87 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.25/ $0.75
Output speed
781tok/s
Context window
260K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#87 of 142
    12independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#76 of 94
    38.5%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#88 of 88
    0%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#79 of 103
    462independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#90 of 147
    11.8%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#135 of 139
    0%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#72 of 139
    71.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-39.5 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗

Specs

Released
September 8, 2026
Parameters
Undisclosed
Size class
Undisclosed
Input
text
Output
text
Context
260K tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.025 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$0.40 / 1M
First token
3.06s
  • Price: Artificial Analysis: Mercury 2.5 ↗ First-party (Inception) price as listed by Artificial Analysis.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Mercury 2.5, median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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