InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/inception/mercury-2.5/vs/qwen/qwen3.7-flash
Mercury 2.5 costs from $0.068 per million tokens and Qwen3.7 Flash from $0.049 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .
Verdict
At these prices, Mercury 2.5 costs 1.4× as much as Qwen3.7 Flash per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.063. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column | $0.028, most favourable value of the column | $0.11, most favourable value of the column | at Vercel AI Gateway, most favourable value of the column | $3.33, most favourable value of the columnat Alibaba | 16 | 11, most favourable value of the column | – | Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens | |
| Most expensive offer · $0.423. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.068 | $4.65at Vercel AI Gateway | 7 | 6 | – |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 8:21 PM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.
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