DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs Mercury 2
DeepSeek vs Inception — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •DeepSeek-V4-Flash has the higher intelligence index (89.4 vs 77)
- •DeepSeek-V4-Flash is cheaper ($0.10 vs $0.25 per 1M input)
- •Mercury 2 is faster
- •DeepSeek-V4-Flash has a larger context window (1M)
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | Mercury 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 89.4 | 77 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | Inception |
| Type | LLM | LLM |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input price | $0.10 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Output price | $0.20 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Speed | 109 tok/s | 790 tok/s |
| Released | April 24, 2026 | March 4, 2026 |
| Parameters | 284B (13B active) | — |
| Input modalities | Text | Text |
| Output modalities | Text | Text |
Shared benchmarks
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Mercury 2
GPQA Diamond
89.4
77
Humanity’s Last Exam
32.1
15.5