Inception Labs·inception/mercury-2.5-preview
Mercury 2.5 Preview is ModelCap current-board rank #94 with Index 27.8 (Modeled · succession), from the ModelCap Index as of 3 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC.
Mercury 2.5 Preview listed OpenRouter input price is $0.04 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.15 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 3 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC.
Mercury 2.5 Preview has a published context limit of 260K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 3 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC.
Mercury 2.5 Preview has 1 published OpenRouter serving endpoint, from OpenRouter as of 3 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC.
Mercury 2.5 Preview weight access is api only, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 3 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC.
Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
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insufficient-artifact-metadata. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.
Missing: artifactReproducibility.revision-sha, artifactReproducibility.architecture-and-model-type, artifactReproducibility.parameter-count, artifactReproducibility.serialized-weight-format, artifactReproducibility.base-lineage, accessLegalClarity.declared-license, accessLegalClarity.resolvable-license-terms, evaluationProvenance.admitted-evaluation-observations, evaluationProvenance.capability-family-breadth, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-source-diversity, evaluationProvenance.identity-and-source-confidence, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Models within 3 places of #94 on the ModelCap Index.
Index score within 3 points of, or above, this model's, with a lower listed blended price (3:1 input:output).
The same publisher's other current models with a public Index position.
Mercury 2.5 Preview holds ModelCap Index position #94 of 225 ranked language models as of 3 September 2026, with an Index score of 27.8 (interval 27.8–43.9); evidence: modeled · succession. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.
Mercury 2.5 Preview is listed at $0.04 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens as of 3 September 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh.
Mercury 2.5 Preview has a published context window of 260K tokens (260,000) and a maximum output of 66K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.
API only. No downloadable model weights are linked in the current source data; access is through a hosted API or product.
One provider serves Mercury 2.5 Preview through OpenRouter as of 3 September 2026: Inception. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Mercury 2.5 Preview's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 3 September 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.
Mercury 2.5 Preview ranks #94 (Index 27.8) and Qwen SEA LION v4 32B IT ranks #95 (Index 27.7) on the ModelCap Index as of 3 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.
Mercury 2.5 Preview first appeared in the catalogue on 31 Aug 2026. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.