Inception Mercury 2.5 vs Nex AGI Nex-N2.5-Mini
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nex-N2.5-Mini is 1.5× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 260K tokens.
- Mercury 2.5's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 98.8%.
| Mercury 2.5 | Nex-N2.5-Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Inception | Nex AGI |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2026-09-08 |
| Input / 1M | $0.04 | $0.025 |
| Output / 1M | $0.15 | $0.10 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.0040 | $0.0025 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.068 | $0.044 |
| Context | 260K | 262K |
| Max output | 66K | 236K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.15 | $0.10 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 98.8% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Mercury 2.5
$4.65 per month$0.15 per day
Nex-N2.5-Mini
$3.00 per month$0.10 per day
Nex-N2.5-Mini saves $1.65 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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