GPT-4 vs Inception: Mercury 2
Compare GPT-4 by OpenAI against Inception: Mercury 2 by Inception, context windows of 8K vs 128K, tested across 26 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-4
Inception: Mercury 2
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Inception: Mercury 2 is 80x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-4
Input
$30.00
Output
$60.00
Inception: Mercury 2
Input
$0.25
120× cheaper
Output
$0.75
80× cheaper
Inception: Mercury 2 is cheaper on both — 120× input, 80× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
43%
Inception: Mercury 2 uses 8.2x more emoji
GPT-4
Inception: Mercury 2
59%Vocabulary53%
18wSentence Length22w
1.10Hedging0.40
0.8Bold6.6
2.5Lists2.6
0.00Emoji0.08
0.00Headings0.87
0.45Transitions0.14
Based on 15 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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