Fast and very cheap during its 80% launch discount, it suits developers after Haiku-class answers at higher speed.
Kenning's take
What it does
Mercury 2.5 is Inception's most capable diffusion language model, which the company says is the largest ever trained. Inception reports a 40% rise in intelligence over Mercury 2, putting it near cost-focused models such as Claude Haiku 4.5, while running at about 1,107 tokens per second. It supports tunable reasoning, parallel tool calls and structured JSON, and is available in the Inception API as mercury-2.5.
- 1,107 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs (Inception figure)
- 260K token context
- Tunable reasoning effort
- Parallel tool calls and schema-aligned JSON
- Used for search, voice and coding subagents
Who it suits. Developers who need a fast, low-cost model for search pipelines, voice agents and coding subagents.
Key facts
- Category
- AI models
- Part of
- Mercury 2 (Inception)
- Made by
- Inception
- Released
- 8 September 2026
- How to get it
- through the Inception API as mercury-2.5
- Works on
- API
- API price
- $0.20 per million input tokens, $0.75 per million output (launch offer $0.04 and $0.15)
FAQ
When was Mercury 2.5 released?
Inception released it on 8 September 2026.
How fast is Mercury 2.5?
Inception reports 1,107 tokens per second on widely available NVIDIA GPUs.
How much does Mercury 2.5 cost?
List price is $0.20 per million input and $0.75 per million output tokens, with 80% off at launch.
Facts from the maker's own pages and the sources listed. Checked 2026-10-11.
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