Claude Opus 4.7 vs Inception: Mercury 2
Compare Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic against Inception: Mercury 2 by Inception, context windows of 1.0M vs 128K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.7
Inception: Mercury 2Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Inception: Mercury 2 is 33x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.7
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Inception: Mercury 2
Input
$0.25
20× cheaper
Output
$0.75
33× cheaper
Inception: Mercury 2 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 33× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Claude Opus 4.7 uses 10.5x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.7
Inception: Mercury 2
64%Vocabulary53%
20wSentence Length22w
0.51Hedging0.40
4.6Bold6.6
3.8Lists2.6
0.86Emoji0.08
1.60Headings0.87
0.03Transitions0.14
Based on 27 + 23 text responses
Research
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