Mercury 2.5
Current promotional pricing · Rate limits and quotas apply
Type / status: llm / public_api_documented
Use cases: AI Coding, AI Agents, RAG, Low-latency reasoning
API endpoint: https://api.inceptionlabs.ai/v1/chat/completions
Standard and 80%-off promotional rates are separate. Cached input has its own rate; reasoning tokens count as output.
One-time signup credit, not monthly. Official sources disagree on the amount, so no confirmed quantity is published. Docs say payment details are not required. Expiry, regions, enterprise-model eligibility and actual account credit remain unverified.
Publicly documented Inception direct API; account and API key required. Purchase and authenticated inference were not tested. Region eligibility requires confirmation.
Official model ID: mercury-2.5
Input / output: text → text
Model developer: Inception Labs · Service provider: Inception Labs
Model family: — · Currency: USD
| Price dimension | Standard | Current limited-time rate |
|---|---|---|
| Input | USD 0.2 | USD 0.04 |
| Output | USD 0.75 | USD 0.15 |
| Cached read | USD 0.02 | USD 0.004 |
Limited-time offer; the end follows the official announcement. An unknown end date does not mean permanently free.
Estimate text API cost
Inception direct API only; the promotion end date has not been announced.
Documented API context: 260,000 tokens
Maximum output: 65,536 tokens
Official source · Last verified: 2026-10-15T10:02:53.6464958Z
Price verification valid until: 2026-10-22T10:02:53.646Z · This is a verification deadline, not the campaign end date