Alternatives to Mercury 2.5

These tools sit near Mercury 2.5. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

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Alternatives

GPT-6 Luna: the low-cost frontier-adjacent option when you need intelligence more than speed.
GPT-6 Luna: a low-cost frontier-adjacent option when you need more intelligence than speed.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: high-throughput alternative with a much larger context window.

GPT-6 Luna

OpenAI GPT-6 Luna: the cheapest GPT-6 tier at $0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens with a 1.05M context window and max-effort reasoning.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Models

Alibaba's open-weight architecture preview of Qwen4: 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active plus a 51B N-gram table, 262K native context, at $0.16/M input.

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