Mercury 2
- Family
- Mercury
- Released
- 2026-02-20
- Context
- 128K
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Inception Labs is an AI company building diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), a fundamentally different archit
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter · cache read $0.025
About
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 is a commercial-scale diffusion-based language model (dLLM) released February 2026. Unlike autoregressive transformers, Mercury uses a diffusion architecture for faster inference. Designed for code generation, reasoning, and analysis tasks. Proprietary, available via the Inception API.
Providers(2)
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.250 | $0.750 | read $0.025 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.250 | $0.750 | read $0.025 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
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Migration checks
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Inception Labs is an AI company building diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), a fundamentally different archit
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter · cache read $0.025