Inception posts Mercury 2 token pricing as diffusion rivals arrive
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Welcome to the diffusion era. We bet on parallel generation years ago, when it was a contrarian idea. It's great to see the industry arrive. Mercury 2 continues to lead the Pareto frontier for quality, speed, and cost among publicly available diffusion LLMs.
Pricing: $0.25 / 1M in and $0.75 / 1M out https://t.co/wvi9w2M01x
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Inception's June 18, 2026 pricing post listed Mercury 2 at $0.25 per million input and $0.75 per million output tokens. Input is the text sent to the model; output is the text it generates. At those published rates, one million of each would cost $1, and generating a given volume of text costs three times as much as submitting the same volume. That makes the balance between prompt length and generated output important when estimating a workload's model bill. Published rates
- token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
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