InceptionMercury Edit 2
Mercury Edit 2 is an Inception proprietary model, released 30 Mar 2026. It is not yet ranked: no independent benchmark results so far, only pricing and metadata. At $0.375 per million tokens blended it is cheaper than most ranked models.
- Blended price
- $0.375/M
- $0.250 in · $0.750 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- –
- Context
- 32k
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 30 Mar 2026
No independent quality benchmark results yet — only pricing and metadata.
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.025 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0003 | $0.0003 | – |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0035 | $0.0014 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0026 | $0.0016 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.018 | $0.0079 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0007 | $0.0003 | – |
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Questions people ask
- Why does Mercury Edit 2 have no BenchLeader Index score?
- The index needs at least five independent results across at least two categories; as of 25 Oct 2026 Mercury Edit 2 has 0 that count. Launch-post scores are never used, so it is ranked once independent publishers have measured it.
- How much does Mercury Edit 2 cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, Mercury Edit 2 costs $0.250 per 1M input tokens and $0.750 per 1M output tokens, $0.375 blended (three input tokens per output token).
- When was Mercury Edit 2 released?
- Inception released Mercury Edit 2 on 30 Mar 2026.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Mercury Edit 2: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/mercury-edit-2.