Inception Mercury 2 vs Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro
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
- Mercury 2 is 1.5× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 128K tokens.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the newer model (released 2026-09-21).
| Mercury 2 | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Inception | Xiaomi |
| Released | 2026-03-04 | 2026-09-21 |
| Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.435 |
| Output / 1M | $0.75 | $0.87 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.025 | $0.0036 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.375 | $0.544 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 50K | 131K |
| Accepts | text | text, image, audio, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 5 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.75 | $0.74 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.60% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Mercury 2
$26.25 per month$0.88 per day
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
$39.15 per month$1.30 per day
Mercury 2 saves $12.90 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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