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Inception: Mercury 2

Source description (English)

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...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
128,000 tokens
Maximum output
50,000 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Other
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.25
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.75
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.025
per 1M tokens
API

Model configuration

Default parameters

temperature
0.75

Reasoning

Reasoning required
No
Default parameters
medium
Capabilities
high, medium, low, none
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"inception/mercury-2","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

Yes · high · medium · low · none

API

Supported API parameters

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetools
Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 7, 2026

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Inception

Not provided
Context
128K
Maximum output
50K
Input
$0.25
Output
$0.75
Cache read
$0.025
Cache write
Not provided
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