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Using Mercury 2 on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Mercury · Inception Labs

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OpenRouter exposes Mercury 2 through model ID inception/mercury-2. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-06-29. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call inception/mercury-2 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.25/1M input, $0.75/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.25
Output tokens$0.75

Capabilities

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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Model Specs

Released2026-02-20
Context131k

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Provider

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OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA