How much does Mercury Edit 2 cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Mercury Edit 2 costs about $187.50 per month at Inception's list prices ($0.25 per 1M input tokens, $0.75 per 1M output tokens).

Does Mercury Edit 2 support prompt caching?

Yes. Cached input costs $0.025 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.25 for regular input.

How long is Mercury Edit 2's context window?

Mercury Edit 2 accepts up to 32,000 tokens (32K) of context and returns up to 8,192 tokens per response.

Mercury Edit 2 API Pricing

Inception · released Mar 30, 2026 · 32K context · API model ID mercury-edit-2

Mercury Edit 2 by Inception API pricing: $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Mercury Edit 2 prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.25
Output	$0.75
Cache read	$0.025
Cache write	Not published

Inception's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$187.50

per month

per day: $6.25
per request: $0.000625

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$187.50/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$356.25/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$150.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 32,000 tokens
Max output: 8,192 tokens
Input: text
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: Not published
Open weights: No
Tool calling: No
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Mercury Edit 2 cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Mercury Edit 2 costs about $187.50 per month at Inception's list prices ($0.25 per 1M input tokens, $0.75 per 1M output tokens).
Does Mercury Edit 2 support prompt caching?: Yes. Cached input costs $0.025 per 1M tokens, compared with $0.25 for regular input.
How long is Mercury Edit 2's context window?: Mercury Edit 2 accepts up to 32,000 tokens (32K) of context and returns up to 8,192 tokens per response.