Inception: Mercury 2
Analysis Summary
Inception: Mercury 2 sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #84 of 561 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.250 input and $0.750 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use and function calling.
Editorial notes
Inception Mercury 2 delivers an intelligence index of 32.8 with strong instruction following, tool use, and function calling at $0.25 input per million tokens, suited to mid-tier business automation tasks.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
inception/mercury-2
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| Provider | inception |
| Release Date | March 4, 2026 |
| Context Length | 128,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 50,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $0.75 | $0.000750 |
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