Fast and efficient with near-frontier intelligence.
Inception's latest diffusion LLM and the fastest reasoning model available, producing and refining tokens in parallel instead of one at a time.
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Both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mercury 2.5 are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
Mercury 2.5 has a lower blended cost. Claude Haiku 4.5: $1.00 input / $5.00 output. Mercury 2.5: $0.04 input / $0.15 output.
Mercury 2.5 has a larger context window: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens vs Mercury 2.5 at 260K tokens.
Claude Haiku 4.5 supports vision/image input, but Mercury 2.5 does not.
Key differences: Mercury 2.5 is significantly cheaper; only Claude Haiku 4.5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Mercury 2.5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.