Mercury 2.5 Preview is 157.9× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 260,000 tokens, 3.8×).
Claude Opus 5 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-opus-5
Mercury 2.5 Preview
Inception · inception__mercury-2.5-preview
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Inception |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | No |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | — |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | 93.4 | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.04 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $0.50 | $0.00 |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.15 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 260,000 |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 | 65,536 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | inception__mercury-2.5-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text, image, file | text |
| Output | text | text |