Inception — pricing & performance
Models served
2
of 1,094 tracked models
Mean output speed
207
tokens per second, averaged over
2 measured endpoints
2 measured endpoints
Mean latency
1.0s
time to first token, averaged over
2 measured endpoints
2 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.068
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
input:output blend
Output speed on Inception
Output tokens per second for all 2 models on Inception with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.
All 2 of 2 models⇩
The Known Good
2 models on Inception
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| Model | Creator | Input $/M | Output $/M | Blended | Speed | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Inception: Mercury 2 | inception | $0.25 | $0.75 | $0.38 | 179 | 0.9s | 128k |
| In Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview | inception | $0.040 | $0.15 | $0.068 | 235 | 1.2s | 260k |
The Known Good
Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Inception are ingested from OpenRouter;
model metadata is enriched from models.dev. A blank cell means the figure was not published for that endpoint —
it never means zero. Blended price is (3 × input + output) ÷ 4, the same 3:1 blend used everywhere on this
site; see methodology. Quality scores are not provider-specific:
a model scores the same wherever it is hosted, so quality lives on the
model pages.