Mercury 2.5 – Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Mercury 2.5 is below average in intelligence, but well priced when comparing to other models of similar price. It’s also notably fast and fairly concise. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 260k tokens context window.

Mercury 2.5 scores 12 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it below average among comparable models (median: 13). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 35M tokens, which is fairly concise in comparison to the median of 85M.

Pricing for Mercury 2.5 is $0.25 per 1M input tokens (moderately priced, median: $0.25) and $0.75 per 1M output tokens (moderately priced, median: $0.90). On average, it costs $0.06 per task to evaluate Mercury 2.5 on the Intelligence Index.

At 770 tokens per second, Mercury 2.5 is notably fast (109).