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