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Mercury 2

InceptionReleased Feb 20, 2026Current

Score basis

Mercury 2 is behind the leaders in instruction following, reasoning, and coding. Too few results yet to rate agentic tasks, safety, long context, math, multimodal tasks, multilingual tasks, or factuality.

Capability profile

Bars show the model's median result as a share of the leading model's, per capability. Select a row to see its results.

Limited3 capabilities
  1. Instruction Following−29.1%1 of 3
  2. Reasoning−37.8%3 of 6
  3. Coding−40.6%4 of 10
Not rated7 capabilities

Too few results yet to rate Agentic, Safety, Long Context, Math, Multimodal, Multilingual or Factuality.

Price

$0.25input$0.75outputper million tokens

From Artificial Analysis · 2 providers tracked · All prices

Cheaper than 66% of 331 priced models · 3:1 input-to-output blend, log scale

Evidence

29results on26benchmarks

  • 5 independently verified
  • 18 aggregator
  • 6 vendor-reported

From 4 sources · latest Oct 8, 2026 · How verification works

API features

Tool callingStructured outputsReasoning

As listed by OpenRouter

Research

1 paper reference Mercury 2

Mercury 2 benchmark results

29 results on 26 benchmarks, grouped by capability. Each bar is the result as a share of the capability leader's; every result links to its source.

Instruction Following

LimitedFull instruction following ranking

29.1% behind the leader1 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Show 1 more instruction following resultHide 1 instruction following result

Reasoning

LimitedFull reasoning ranking

37.8% behind the leader3 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

Show 1 more reasoning resultHide 1 reasoning result

Coding

LimitedFull coding ranking

40.6% behind the leader4 of 10 ranked benchmarks measured

Show 1 more coding resultHide 1 coding result

Agentic

Not enough dataFull agentic ranking

0 of 7 ranked benchmarks measured

Long Context

Not enough dataFull long context ranking

0 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Factuality

Not enough dataFull factuality ranking

0 of 4 ranked benchmarks measured

More results

Benchmarks outside the capability baskets. They are not ranked against a leader.

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Mercury 2: common questions

Who makes Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 is made by Inception.

When was Mercury 2 released?

Mercury 2 was released on Feb 20, 2026, according to Artificial Analysis.

What is Mercury 2 good at?

Mercury 2 is behind the leaders in instruction following, reasoning, and coding. Too few results yet to rate agentic tasks, safety, long context, math, multimodal tasks, multilingual tasks, or factuality.

How much does Mercury 2 cost?

Mercury 2 costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, according to Artificial Analysis. We track its price at 2 providers. At a mix of three input tokens to one output token, it is cheaper than 66% of the 331 priced models we track.

How many benchmarks has Mercury 2 been tested on?

We track 29 results for Mercury 2 on 26 benchmarks from 4 sources, 5 of them independently verified. The latest was recorded on Oct 8, 2026.

Which API features does Mercury 2 support?

OpenRouter lists tool calling, structured outputs, and reasoning for Mercury 2.

About this record

Where Mercury 2's numbers come from, and every name it appears under.

Tracked since
Apr 27, 2026
Newest source mention
May 2, 2026

Where the results come from

Verification: 29 scores · 5 independently verified · 18 aggregator-attributed · 6 vendor-reported. How these tiers are assigned

From 4 sources on 4 sites. Artificial Analysis supplies 18 of them; the 5 independently verified results come from 2 sites. Bars are coloured by trust tier.

  • artificialanalysis.ai18
  • api.llm-stats.com6
  • raw.githubusercontent.com4
  • datasets-server.huggingface.co1