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title: "Inception Launches Mercury 2.5 LLM at 1,100 Tokens Per Second, Topping OpenRouter Speed Leaderboard"
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summary: "The new Mercury 2.5 model from Inception costs $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens at general availability. Available on OpenRou…"
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# Inception Launches Mercury 2\.5 LLM at 1,100 Tokens Per Second, Topping OpenRouter Speed Leaderboard

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**Published:** 2026-09-08T20:52:22.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** inception, mercury, llm, openrouter, inference, speed, deepseek, benchmark

## Summary

The new Mercury 2\.5 model from Inception costs $0\.04 per million input tokens and $0\.15 per million output tokens at general availability\. Available on OpenRou…

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/inception-launches-mercury-25-llm-at-1100-tokens-per-second-topping-open-9d3c2f6e>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/ollama/status/2098188014119985406>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/askalphaxiv/status/2098158331710091272>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2098157751465603171>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/ekzhang1/status/2098240422741000234>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/ollama/status/2098235674793242770>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/AskVenice/status/2098147408647471483>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/justinsuntron/status/2098047446110843333>)