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mercury-2.5-preview

Score basis

mercury-2.5-preview is capable in long context and behind the leaders in factuality. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, safety, math, multimodal tasks, multilingual tasks, or instruction following.

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.

Capable1 capability
  1. Long Context−23.6%1 of 3
Limited1 capability
  1. Factuality−34.2%2 of 4
Not rated8 capabilities

Too few results yet to rate Reasoning, Coding, Agentic, Safety, Math, Multimodal, Multilingual or Instruction Following.

Price

$0.25input$0.75outputper million tokens

From Artificial Analysis · 2 providers tracked · All prices

Cheaper than 66% of 330 priced models · 3:1 input-to-output blend, log scale

Evidence

10results on10benchmarks

  • 10 aggregator

From 1 source · latest Oct 8, 2026 · How verification works

API features

Tool callingStructured outputsReasoning

As listed by OpenRouter

mercury-2.5-preview benchmark results

10 results on 10 benchmarks, grouped by capability. Each bar is the result as a share of the capability leader's; every result links to its source.

Long Context

CapableFull long context ranking

23.6% behind the leader1 of 3 ranked benchmarks measured

Factuality

LimitedFull factuality ranking

34.2% behind the leader2 of 4 ranked benchmarks measured

Reasoning

Not enough dataFull reasoning ranking

0 of 6 ranked benchmarks measured

Coding

Not enough dataFull coding ranking

0 of 10 ranked benchmarks measured

Agentic

Not enough dataFull agentic ranking

0 of 7 ranked benchmarks measured

More results

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

mercury-2.5-preview: common questions

Who makes mercury-2.5-preview?

mercury-2.5-preview is made by Inception.

When was mercury-2.5-preview released?

mercury-2.5-preview was released on Sep 8, 2026, according to Artificial Analysis.

What is mercury-2.5-preview good at?

mercury-2.5-preview is capable in long context and behind the leaders in factuality. Too few results yet to rate reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, safety, math, multimodal tasks, multilingual tasks, or instruction following.

How much does mercury-2.5-preview cost?

mercury-2.5-preview 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 330 priced models we track.

How many benchmarks has mercury-2.5-preview been tested on?

We track 10 results for mercury-2.5-preview on 10 benchmarks from 1 source. The latest was recorded on Oct 8, 2026.

Which API features does mercury-2.5-preview support?

OpenRouter lists tool calling, structured outputs, and reasoning for mercury-2.5-preview.

About this record

Where mercury-2.5-preview's numbers come from, and every name it appears under.

Tracked since
Sep 2, 2026
Newest source mention
Sep 24, 2026

Where the results come from

Verification: 10 scores · 0 independently verified · 10 aggregator-attributed. How these tiers are assigned

From 1 source on 1 site. Artificial Analysis supplies all of them. Bars are coloured by trust tier.

  • artificialanalysis.ai10

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