https://tokencost.app/blog/mercury-2-5-pricing-discount-expiry TokenCost en 2026-09-07T00:00:00.000Z At 07:00 UTC tomorrow the cheapest model we can price goes up 5.00x, and the number that replaces it is not new. It is the card Inception has charged for Mercury 2 since March, with a fifth off the input line and nothing off the output line. https://tokencost.app/blog/document-parsing-api-cost-per-page TokenCost en 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z Every comparison of an LLM against a document parser is run on input tokens. Input is the half of the bill the parser already includes, and putting the output back turns the cheapest model on the market from 7.75x cheaper than the going page rate into twice its price.