Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

Mercury 2.5, released in September 2026, achieves a notably fast speed of 770 tokens per second with moderate pricing at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens. However, the model scores below average on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 12, ranking it in the lower tier for reasoning capabilities compared to other models in its class.