Side by side
Mercury 2 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Source: OpenRouter (live)
Live figures
The numbers
Best value in each row is highlighted. "Not declared" means the provider does not advertise the feature on its listing.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input priceUSD per 1M tokens | $0.25 (best) | $0.36 |
| Output priceUSD per 1M tokens | $0.75 | $0.40 (best) |
| Blended price75% in / 25% out | $0.38 | $0.37 (best) |
| Vs. market median | 58% cheaper | 58% cheaper |
| Value rankcheapest = 1 | #129 | #127 (best) |
| Context windowtokens | 128K (best) | 33K |
| Max outputtokens | 50K (best) | 16K |
| Input modalities | text | text |
| Output modalities | text | text |
| Tool calling | Declared | Declared |
| Reasoning | Declared | Not declared |
| Structured output | Declared | Declared |
| Listed on OpenRouter | 2026-03-04 (best) | 2024-09-19 |
Blended price assumes a 3:1 input-to-output token mix. Median is across all 430 priced models.
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At your volume
Estimate the monthly bill for these models at your own token volumes.
| Model | Input | Output | Monthly | Yearly | vs cheapest | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inception: Mercury 2 Inception · $0.250 in / $0.750 out per M | $13 | $11 | $24 | $285 | Cheapest | |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen (Alibaba) · $0.360 in / $0.400 out per M | $18 | $6.00 | $24 | $288 | +$0.250 (1.0×) |
Estimates use list prices per million tokens from live provider listings. Cached-input, batch and volume discounts are not included, so real bills are often lower.
Read-out
What the numbers say
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the cheapest here at $0.37/M blended; Inception: Mercury 2 costs 1% more.
- Inception: Mercury 2 offers the largest context window (128K tokens) versus 33K for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
- Reasoning mode is declared for Inception: Mercury 2 only.
Models
Model pages
Full pricing history, capabilities and alternatives for each model in this comparison.
Inception
$0.375
/M blended
Qwen (Alibaba)
$0.370
/M blended
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