Inception: 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...

Inception: Mercury 2 — Inception. Context window 128,000 tokens. API pricing (per 1M tokens): Input $0.25, Output $0.75. License: Proprietary. LMArena 1,355.

Benchmarks · API pricing (per 1M tokens)

ProviderInception
API model IDinception/mercury-2
TierMid
Context window128,000 tokens
Max output50,000 tokens
LicenseProprietary
API pricing (per 1M tokens) · Input$0.25
API pricing (per 1M tokens) · Output$0.75
LMArena1,355 (mercury-2)

LMArena (CC-BY 4.0, best reasoning setting, 2026-10-02) · GPQA Diamond: Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

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