Mercury 2.5 Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max: side-by-side summary

Mercury 2.5 Preview and Qwen3.8 Max are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Mercury 2.5 Preview, from inception, has a 260,000-token context window and is priced at $0.04/M tokens input, $0.15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Qwen3.8 Max, from Qwen, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Mercury 2.5 Preview: 260,000 tokens
• Qwen3.8 Max: 1,000,000 tokens

Price

• Mercury 2.5 Preview: $0.04/M tokens input, $0.15/M tokens output
• Qwen3.8 Max: $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output

Provided by

• Mercury 2.5 Preview: inception
• Qwen3.8 Max: Qwen

• Mercury 2.5 Preview model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3.8 Max model details, providers and pricing