GPT-4.1 vs Inception: Mercury 2
Compare GPT-4.1 by OpenAI against Inception: Mercury 2 by Inception, context windows of 1.0M vs 128K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-4.1
Inception: Mercury 2Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Inception: Mercury 2 is 11x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-4.1
Input
$2.00
Output
$8.00
Inception: Mercury 2
Input
$0.25
8.0× cheaper
Output
$0.75
11× cheaper
Inception: Mercury 2 is cheaper on both — 8.0× input, 11× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
66%
GPT-4.1 uses 2.9x more emoji
GPT-4.1
Inception: Mercury 2
58%Vocabulary53%
19wSentence Length22w
0.38Hedging0.40
9.0Bold6.6
6.1Lists2.6
0.24Emoji0.08
1.01Headings0.87
0.07Transitions0.14
Based on 25 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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