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Every host for Mercury 2

Per 1M tokens
HostBlendedInputOutputCachedPrecisionUptime
Inception
$0.375
$0.25$0.75$0.025—99.8%
Blended price: three input tokens for every output token, per 1M tokens.

Cheapest price over time

Per 1M tokens
Cheapest input and output price for Mercury 2 over timeFree$0.20$0.40$0.60$0.803 Jun3 Jun4 Jun$0.75$0.25
  • Input
  • Output
The cheapest list price at any host on each day it changed.

What your workload costs

A month, at every host
Cheapest a month
$150.00
Inception
  • Inception
    $150.00

Rent GPUs or pay per token?

Break-even
Renting the GPUs
$16,878/mo
Break-even volume
45B tokens/mo
Needed around the clock
17.1K tok/s

8 × H100 cost $16,878 a month. The cheapest API (Inception) charges $0.375 per 1M blended tokens, so the GPUs only pay off above 45B tokens a month: the box must serve 17.1K tokens a second, every second.

GPU price: cheapest on-demand offer per GPU-hour × 730 hours. No throughput is assumed: it depends on the model size, precision, batch size and serving software, so measure yours. Power, storage, egress and engineering time are not included.

LMArena rating over time

Text leaderboard
LMArena text rating of Mercury 2 over time1,3541,3561,35811 Mar30 Jun20 Oct1,354

Rated about the same, by price

Blended, per 1M tokens

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