Inception · Released Mar 30, 2026Mercury Edit 2
Code editing dLLM for autocomplete (FIM) and next-edit suggestions.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.25per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.75per 1M tokens
- Context
- 32K8K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.25per million tokens
- Output
- $0.75per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.025per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.375cheaper than 68% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.875 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $10.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $100.00 |
Official Inception API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mercury Edit 2 yet.
The details
- Lab
- Inception
- Released
- Mar 30, 2026
- Context window
- 32,000 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
mercury-edit-2on Inception- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Mercury Edit 2
How much does Mercury Edit 2 cost?
Mercury Edit 2 costs $0.25 input / $0.75 output per million tokens (official Inception API price). Cached input is $0.025 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.375 per million tokens, cheaper than 68% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Mercury Edit 2?
Mercury Edit 2 accepts up to 32,000 tokens per request and can write up to 8,192 tokens in one response.
How good is Mercury Edit 2?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Mercury Edit 2 yet.
Is Mercury Edit 2 open source?
No. Mercury Edit 2 is proprietary; you use it through Inception’s API or partner platforms.
What inputs does Mercury Edit 2 support?
Mercury Edit 2 accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, does not support tool calling.
When was Mercury Edit 2 released?
Inception released Mercury Edit 2 on Mar 30, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Mercury Edit 2?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Trinity Large Thinking (Arcee AI, $0.25 / $0.80), Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (NVIDIA, $0.20 / $0.80), Step 3.7 Flash (StepFun, $0.185 / $1.11) and Seed 1.8 (ByteDance Seed, $0.119 / $1.19).