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Comparison · 2 models · Updated Oct 4, 2026

Mercury Edit 2 vs Trinity Mini

Trinity Mini comes out ahead, 65 to 35 on our weighted score, and it is the cheaper option too.

  1. Inception

    Mercury Edit 2

    Released Mar 30, 2026

    35/100
    • ECI—
    • Price$0.25 / $0.75
    • Context32K
    Full specs Remove Mercury Edit 2
  2. Our pick

    Arcee AI

    Trinity Mini

    Released Dec 1, 2025

    65/100
    • ECI—
    • Price$0.045 / $0.15
    • Context131K
    Full specs Remove Trinity Mini

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01 — Verdict

Trinity Mini is our pick

Trinity Mini is the better all-round choice, scoring 65/100 against Mercury Edit 2 (35). It leads on price, inputs & features and context window. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

  • CapabilityNot enough dataNo independent benchmark covers every model here yet
  • Lowest priceTrinity MiniTrinity Mini $0.071 · Mercury Edit 2 $0.375 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
  • Longest contextTrinity MiniTrinity Mini 131,072 · Mercury Edit 2 32,000 tokens
  • Widest inputsSame inputsMercury Edit 2: Text · Trinity Mini: Text
  • Self-hostingTrinity MiniPublishes downloadable weights (OpenMDW-1.1)
How the score is built
MeasureWeightMercury Edit 2Trinity Mini
Price50%70100
Inputs & features30%035
Context window20%024
Overall100%35/10065/100

Left out because at least one model lacks the data: capability. The remaining weights were rescaled.

02 — Side by side

Every spec in one table

Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.

Mercury Edit 2 vs Trinity Mini specifications side by side
SpecificationMercury Edit 2InceptionTrinity MiniArcee AI
Capability
Capabilities Index (ECI)——
ECI rank——
Price per million tokens
Input$0.25$0.045 (best)
Output$0.75$0.15 (best)
Cached input$0.025—
Blended (3:1)$0.375$0.071 (best)
Long-context rateSame rateSame rate
Price sourceOfficial Inception APIMedian of 1 providers
Limits
Context window32,000 tokens131,072 tokens (best)
Max output8,192 tokens131,072 tokens (best)
Inputs and features
TextYesYes
ImagesNoNo
PDFsNoNo
AudioNoNo
VideoNoNo
ReasoningNoYes
Tool callingNoYes
Structured outputNoNo
Availability
WeightsProprietaryOpenOpenMDW-1.1
API model IDmercury-edit-2—
API providers11
ReleasedMar 30, 2026Dec 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff——
03 — Cost

What would a month cost?

Enter your expected volume in millions of tokens. List prices only; caching and batch discounts would lower these.

  • Mercury Edit 2$4.00
  • Trinity Mini$0.75
04 — Questions

Which should you choose?

Which is better: Mercury Edit 2 or Trinity Mini?

Trinity Mini is the better all-round choice, scoring 65/100 against Mercury Edit 2 (35). It leads on price, inputs & features and context window. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

Which is cheaper, Mercury Edit 2 or Trinity Mini?

Trinity Mini is cheaper at $0.045 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). Mercury Edit 2 costs $0.25 input / $0.75 output per million tokens (official Inception API price). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.071 per million tokens for Trinity Mini versus $0.375 for Mercury Edit 2 (5.3× as much).

Which scores higher on benchmarks?

There is no independent benchmark that covers both models yet. Mercury Edit 2 has not been scored yet and Trinity Mini has not been scored yet.

Which is better for coding?

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Mercury Edit 2 and Trinity Mini yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that Mercury Edit 2 does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.

Which has the bigger context window?

Trinity Mini has the largest context window at 131,072 tokens, against 32,000 for Mercury Edit 2. Maximum output per response: Mercury Edit 2 up to 8,192, Trinity Mini up to 131,072 tokens.

Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?

Mercury Edit 2 accepts text; Trinity Mini accepts text. They handle the same number of input types.

Are any of these open source?

Trinity Mini publishes its weights (OpenMDW-1.1) and can be self-hosted; Mercury Edit 2 is proprietary.

Which is newer?

Mercury Edit 2 is the newest, released Mar 30, 2026. Trinity Mini came out Dec 1, 2025.

How do you decide the winner?

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.

05 — Keep comparing

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