Last refreshed 2026-06-29. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Mercury 2 on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Mercury 2 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.25/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Mercury 2 across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.75
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model: inception/mercury-2Model ID
inception/mercury-2Request example
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inception/mercury-2.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "inception/mercury-2", not the LLMReference slug "mercury-2".
Compare Mercury 2 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.25 | $0.75 |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.25 | $0.75 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.25 |
| Output tokens | $0.75 |
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Structured Outputs
About Mercury 2
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.
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Released2026-02-20
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