Inception: Mercury Edit 2
Mercury Edit 2 is a language model from Inception released on Mar 30, 2026. It reads text and writes text, with a 32K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.025, 90% less than fresh input.
It supports prompt caching.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.25 / $0.75 per 1M
- Context
- 32K
- Max output
- 8K
- Released
- Mar 30, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Mercury Edit 2 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.25 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.75 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.025 / 1M tokens | 90% off input |
What Mercury Edit 2 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Mercury Edit 2 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Mercury Edit 2 questions
How much does the Mercury Edit 2 API cost?
$0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.025. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Mercury Edit 2?
32,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Mercury Edit 2 support tool calling?
Not through the standard tools parameter. For an agent that calls your APIs, pick a model from the alternatives below that does.
Is Mercury Edit 2 open source?
No. Inception serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Mercury Edit 2 released?
Mar 30, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.