Using Mercury 2 on OpenRouter

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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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.