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Mercury 2

Inception · Released Mar 2026

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Mercury 2 is a reasoning model from Inception that uses diffusion-based token generation to produce and refine multiple tokens in parallel rather than sequentially.

Strengths
The parallel token generation approach enables faster inference speeds compared to autoregressive models while maintaining reasoning capability.
Best for
Tasks requiring complex reasoning where inference latency is a primary concern.
Limitations
As a reasoning diffusion model, it may have different quality characteristics or trade-offs compared to traditional sequential reasoning models, and support for integrations may be limited given the novel architecture.

Input / 1M

$0.25

Output / 1M

$0.75

Cached input / 1M

$0.025

Context window

128K

Price history

Price per 1M tokens over timeOutput $0.75; Input $0.25 as of Jun 2026.$0$0.2$0.4$0.6$0.8Output on 11 Jun 2026: $0.75Out $0.75Input on 11 Jun 2026: $0.25In $0.25Jun 2026

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Effective Input Output Cached in Note Source
11 Jun 2026 $0.25 $0.75 $0.025 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
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