The small, fast Inception model is Mercury 2 — the efficient tier at 590 tokens/sec and $0.250 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.
Compact, efficient models — the small/mini/flash/haiku tier — ranked by output speed. These trade a little raw intelligence for low cost and high throughput, which is the right tradeoff for chat, classification, extraction and other high-volume work.
The small, fast Inception model is Mercury 2 — the efficient tier at 590 tokens/sec and $0.250 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.
modelgrep tracks 1 Inception models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Mercury 2. 1 of them qualify for this ranking.