Mercury 2.5 Preview is cheaper than Nova Premier 1.0 at $0.04/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.
| Spec | Mercury 2.5 Preview | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.04/M tokens | $2.5/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.15/M tokens | $12.5/M tokens |
| Context window | 260K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Oct 2025 |
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Nova Premier 1.0 has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window.
Mercury 2.5 Preview costs 83x less per token.
Mercury 2.5 Preview is cheaper on both — 63× input, 83× output
Nova Premier 1.0 uses 2.8x more sentence length
Mercury 2.5 Preview is cheaper than Nova Premier 1.0 at $0.04/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.
| Spec | Mercury 2.5 Preview | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.04/M tokens | $2.5/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.15/M tokens | $12.5/M tokens |
| Context window | 260K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Released | Aug 2026 | Oct 2025 |
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Nova Premier 1.0 has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window.
Mercury 2.5 Preview costs 83x less per token.
Mercury 2.5 Preview is cheaper on both — 63× input, 83× output
Nova Premier 1.0 uses 2.8x more sentence length