Model comparisons

InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/inception/mercury-2/vs/qwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Mercury 2 costs from $0.375 per million tokens and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct from $0.375 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on 31 October 2026.

Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.

Mercury 2 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: API prices

Model	Blended$/1MLowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column.	Input$/1MInput price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens	Output$/1MOutput price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens	No training$/1MThe provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves.	Monthly cost$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	ContextThe 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
Mercury 2, Inceptionat NanoGPT	$0.375Most expensive offer · $0.468. 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.	$0.25	$0.75	$0.375	$26.25at NanoGPT	8	7, most favourable value of the column	128k
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct, Qwenat Parasail via OpenRouter	$0.375Most expensive offer · $0.474. 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.	$0.25	$0.75	$0.375	$26.25at Parasail via OpenRouter	7	6	262k

Green background: the most favourable value of each column.