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Mercury 2.5

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MedianThe median 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.
$0.068
Most expensiveThe 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.
$0.423
Offers
7
Providers
6

Cheapest right now

Vercel AI Gateway

The provider's published policy: prompts are not used for training.

$0.068 blended / 1M tokens

No change7D
in
$0.04
out
$0.15
Cached input
$0.004
Go to offer Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)via Vercel AI Gateway

Mercury 2.5 costs from $0.068 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest of 3 comparable offers, at Vercel AI Gateway, checked on ; 7 offers are listed.

Listed offers, by price

Comparable offersOther offersSolid steps are comparable offers; dashed steps are the other offers, which are not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive.

Offers not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive (4)

  • $0.068 · Glama via Glama · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $0.068 · Martian via Martian · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $0.068 · Nous Portal via Nous Portal · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $0.338 · Inception via Kilo Gateway · cannot be designated the cheapest

Price historyThe cheapest offer each day, against the lab's official list price when it publishes one. Each day at 00:00 UTC, the offer the API would have selected as the cheapest, with the same exclusions as /cheapest. Blended price, promotions included.

Cheapest offer and official list price, by day, 30 days
DayCheapest offerOfficial list price
2026-10-02$0.068, Glama–
2026-10-03$0.068, Glama–
2026-10-04$0.068, Glama–
2026-10-05$0.068, Glama–
2026-10-06$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-07$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-08$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-09$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-10$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-11$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-12$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-13$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-14$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-15$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-16$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-17$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-18$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-19$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-20$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-21$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-22$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-23$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-24$0.068, Inception–
2026-10-25$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-26$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-27$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-28$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-29$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-30$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–
2026-10-31$0.068, Vercel AI Gateway–

Cheapest offer

Offers

7 of 7 offers

Offers for Mercury 2.5, one row per offer, sorted by blended price.
RankProvider · viaYou buy access through an aggregator: one account and one API that forward your requests to other providers. "Via" names the aggregator; the price is the one it charges you. When "via" says "hosted API", no aggregator is involved: the model belongs to a lab and another provider sells it.Input $/1MOutput $/1MBlended $/1MA single price that mixes input and output: 3 input tokens for 1 output token, per million tokens. It makes offers easy to rank; your real cost depends on your own mix. 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.ConditionsWhat a provider says about how it handles your data and who can sign up: training on prompts, processing region, sign-up requirements. Each comes from the provider's published documents; when nothing is published, it stays unknown.SignalsOffer
1 Glama 0.04 0.15 0.068 260k Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Glama (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
2 Martian 0.04 0.15 0.068 – worldwide Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at Martian (opens in a new tab)
3 Nous Portal 0.04 0.15 0.068 260k Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at Nous Portal (opens in a new tab)
4 Vercel AI Gateway 0.04 0.15 0.068 –
Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)
5 Inceptionvia OpenRouter 0.04 0.15 0.068 260k Price drop observed: The blended price is 80% lower than before this drop; possibly temporary. · Discount shown by the seller, no end date announced, seen on Oct 31, 2026Fee 5.5%: OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee when you buy credits (read on openrouter.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at OpenRouter (opens in a new tab)
6 Inceptionvia Kilo Gateway 0.20 0.75 0.338 260k Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Kilo Gateway (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
7 Venice 0.25 0.94 0.423 260k
Go to offer at Venice (opens in a new tab)

No training on promptsPrompts may be used for trainingTraining terms not published

backend not named. The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

  • Glama

    $0.068

    Glama

    in
    $0.04
    out
    $0.15
    Context
    260k

    No training on promptsUnverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapestbackend not named: The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

    Seller's site: Glama (opens in a new tab)No public price page for this model

  • Martian

    $0.068

    Martian

    in
    $0.04
    out
    $0.15
    Context
    –

    Training terms not publishedworldwideUnverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapestbackend not named: The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

    See pricing See pricing at Martian (opens in a new tab)via Martian

  • Nous Portal

    $0.068

    Nous Portal

    in
    $0.04
    out
    $0.15
    Context
    260k

    Prompts may be used for trainingUnverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapestbackend not named: The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

    See pricing See pricing at Nous Portal (opens in a new tab)via Nous Portal

  • Vercel AI Gateway

    $0.068

    Vercel AI Gateway

    in
    $0.04
    out
    $0.15
    Context
    –

    No training on prompts

    Go to offer Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)via Vercel AI Gateway

  • Inception

    $0.068

    OpenRouter

    in
    $0.04
    out
    $0.15
    Context
    260k

    Prompts may be used for trainingPrice drop observed: The blended price is 80% lower than before this drop; possibly temporary. · Discount shown by the seller, no end date announced, seen on Oct 31, 2026Fee 5.5%: OpenRouter adds a 5.5% fee when you buy credits (read on openrouter.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.

    Go to offer Go to offer at OpenRouter (opens in a new tab)via OpenRouter

  • Inception

    $0.338

    Kilo Gateway

    in
    $0.20
    out
    $0.75
    Context
    260k

    Prompts may be used for trainingUnverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest

    Seller's site: Kilo Gateway (opens in a new tab)No public price page for this model

  • Venice

    $0.423

    direct

    in
    $0.25
    out
    $0.94
    Context
    260k

    No training on prompts

    Go to offer Go to offer at Venice (opens in a new tab)at Venice

Blended = (3 × input + output) / 4, per million tokens. Prices in USD, converted at the ECB rate when the provider bills in another currency.

Method

Monthly cost for your workload

Computed by the API for the three cheapest offers, per 30-day month.
  1. Vercel AI Gateway$4.65per month
  2. Inception$4.65per month+$0.00 vs the cheapest
  3. Venice$29.10per month+$24.45 vs the cheapest

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