Mercury 2
Context 128K tokens
Top 1 cheapest providers (Adjusted $/task)
Within the active global provider, residency and confidentiality filters.
| # | Provider | Price channel | Raw input $/1M | Raw output $/1M | Adjusted $/task |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inceptionvia OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Inception's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-2/providers), collected 2026-11-03. | via OpenRouter — Price via OpenRouter: OpenRouter's price for Inception's endpoint (https://openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-2/providers), collected 2026-11-03. | $0.250 | $0.750 |
Composite
2 of 7 inputs6 radar axes: DesignArena's two boards share one10.5
Thin data · 2/7Based on only 2 of 7 Composite inputs — treat this rank as uncertainincludes −3.5 for its Benchmaxxing signal (from 14.0; why, switch off in Options)
dominance-adjusted from 17.6: a better-measured model that is at least as good on each of these inputs ranks above it
Benchmaxxing signal +3.5, light Benchmaxxing tag, uncertain: Based on only 9 comparisons and the 80 % interval reaches below zero — treat this tag as uncertain · light report →Based on only 9 comparisons and the 80 % interval reaches below zero — treat this tag as uncertain.
AA Coding v4.x 31.1Coding Agent v1.4 —AA Intelligence (est.) 4.9AA Agentic 4.0Epoch ECI —Software ECI —DesignArena —/—
Radar: percentile among all models measured on each input; a gap means not measured.
Benchmark sheet
16 of 319 registered benchmark versions · bars show the percentile among all models measured on each benchmark.
Agentic
AA-Briefcase14280 Elo
AA-Briefcase published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests multi-week professional knowledge-work projects with linked tasks and large source collections.
GDPval-AA v230646 Elo
GDPval-AA v2 v2 → · Published board — Tests professional knowledge-work deliverables across occupations using AA's Stirrup harness.
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA)6826.5%
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) pinned revision 74221fb → · Published board — Tests a pinned 44-task hard subset of terminal-based work using Terminus 2.
Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA)3227.3%
Terminal-Bench v2.1 (AA) v2.1 → · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 89-task verified refresh using Terminus 2.
Terminal-Bench v4.0 (AA)180.0%
Terminal-Bench v4.0 (AA) v4.0 → · Published board — Tests terminal-based work on the 66-task release using mini-SWE-agent v2.4.6.
AA Agentic Index324.00
AA Agentic Index published 2026-09-18 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis publishes one Agentic Index per model, measured on its primary configuration and relayed by OpenRouter's Benchmarks API; the value is attached at family scope on the deterministic representative. Artificial Analysis publishes this board without a version number; we keep the date each result was retained.
Coding
SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.11937.7%
SciCode (AA subproblems) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests scientific Python programming with scientist-annotated background information.
AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-273731.1
AA Coding Index v4.x · frozen 2026-10-27 → · Published board — Artificial Analysis withdrew the Coding Index with Intelligence Index v5.0 (2026-10-28). These are the last v4.x values, frozen with their own date (2026-10-27).
Instruction-following
IFBench (AA single-turn)8469.8%
IFBench (AA single-turn) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests precise single-turn instructions with deterministic rule checks.
Knowledge
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only)6717.1%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA text-only) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests expert-level knowledge on AA's text-only Humanity's Last Exam subset.
AA-Omniscience Index32-50.7
AA-Omniscience Index published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests factual reliability while rewarding correct answers and penalizing hallucinations.
Long-context
GDP.pdf (AA)273.8%
GDP.pdf (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests professional reasoning over long PDFs with AA document preparation and grading.
AA-LCR v1.14143.7%
AA-LCR v1.1 v1.1 → · Published board — Tests reasoning across multiple long documents with corrected answer keys and grading.
Science
CritPt (AA)590.8%
CritPt (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests research-level physics reasoning with Python, symbolic and numerical answers.
GPQA Diamond (AA)6277.0%
GPQA Diamond (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry knowledge on the Diamond subset.
Tool-use
AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6201.7%
AutomationBench-AA v1.0.6 → · Published board — Tests multi-app SaaS workflows through REST tools on a held-out AutomationBench split.
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)6370.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) published 2026-09-10 → · Published board — Tests dual-control telecom agents that coordinate tool use with a simulated user.
τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1289.5%
τ³-Banking (AA) v1.0.1 → · Published board — Tests banking support agents that retrieve policies and change account state through tools.
Missing coverage · 303 benchmark versions
No result does not mean a zero, or that the model was never tested. Collection failures and disputed versions retain their distinct status.
Token offers by platform · 1 offer (Adjusted $/task)
Click any underlined price to see how it is estimated and where each input comes from. How we calculate adjusted cost.
1 offer within the active global filters; “price n/a” means the provider serves the model but publishes no direct token price we could collect — no other channel's price is shown in its place.
OpenRouter (1)
Prices via OpenRouter — what OpenRouter charges for each provider's endpoint, not the provider's own direct price. Source: openrouter.ai/inception/mercury-2/providers, collected 2026-11-03.
| Inception | globalinception | $0.250 raw in $/1M | $0.750 raw out $/1M |