vs
1:8
overall capability wins (0 ties across 9 scored). Mercury 2 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:2
- Tool use0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Mercury 2 leads coding (widest gap: +10.6 on SciCode); Ling-2.6 Flash offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 128K); Ling-2.6 Flash is ~25.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mercury 2.
- Mercury 2 leads coding (widest gap: +10.6 on SciCode)
- Ling-2.6 Flash offers ~2.0x larger context (262K vs 128K)
- Ling-2.6 Flash is ~25.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mercury 2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Ling-2.6 Flash
- $0.02
- Mercury 2
- $0.44
Ling-2.6 Flash is about 25.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
InclusionAI
Inception Labs
Family
Other
Other
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 10, 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
InclusionAI
Inception Labs
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
262K
128K
Max output
16K
-
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.01
$0.25
Output $/1M
$0.03
$0.75
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.01
$0.38
Speed
tok/s
140
-
TTFT (s)
0.2
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
59.3
77.0
Humanity's Last Exam
6.3
17.1
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
15.6
21.2
AA-LCR v1.1
31.3
43.7
CritPt
—
0.8
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
57.4
69.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
24.3
27.3
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
27.1
37.7
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,167
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Ling-2.6 Flash | Mercury 2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | InclusionAI | Inception Labs | — |
| Family | Other | Other | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 10, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | InclusionAI | Inception Labs | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 262K | 128K | A +134K |
| Max output | 16K | - | — |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.01 | $0.25 | A +$0.24 |
| Output $/1M | $0.03 | $0.75 | A +$0.72 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.01 | $0.38 | A +$0.36 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 140 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.3 | 77.0 | B +17.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.3 | 17.1 | B +10.8 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 15.6 | 21.2 | B +5.6 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 31.3 | 43.7 | B +12.4 pts |
| CritPt | — | 0.8 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 57.4 | 69.8 | B +12.4 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 24.3 | 27.3 | B +3.0 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 27.1 | 37.7 | B +10.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,167 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Ling-2.6 Flash
- Context
- 262K / 16K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.01 / $0.03
- Speed
- 140 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Ultra-cheap InclusionAI Flash model for high-volume Chinese/English API workloads.
Mercury 2
- Context
- 128K
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.25 / $0.75
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Inception Labs' diffusion-based (non-autoregressive) reasoning LLM, API-only with a 128K context window and high-throughput inference on Blackwell GPUs.
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