inception / text-generation API-only released 2026-03-04

Mercury 2

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...

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.75
Context
128K
AA Intelligence
10.8
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.25
input / 1M
$0.75
output / 1M
$0.025
cached input / 1M
$1.00
1M in + 1M out
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
50,000 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Inception · $0.25 / $0.75
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
10.8 / 31.1 / 1.6
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)
Current: $0.25 input · $0.75 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
10.8
AA Coding Index
31.1
AA Agentic Index
1.6
Design Arena
CategoryEloWin %Rank
3d 984 21.9% #115
asciiart 989 24.4% #71
codecategories 1021 21.3% #121
dataviz 1011 22.5% #115
gamedev 984 18.7% #125
svg 997 24.5% #86
uicomponent 995 19.6% #117
website 1035 22.1% #126

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics
ProviderQuantContextInputOutputUptimeTok/s
Inception unknown 128K $0.25 $0.75 100% —
Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation
inception
Released on OpenRouter
2026-03-04
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
50,000 tokens
Input
text
Output
text
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
inception/mercury-2
Compare with
Prices, context and providers from the public OpenRouter API, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. See /methodology.