Inception
Inception: Mercury 2
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 >1,000 tokens/sec on standard GPUs. Mercury 2 is 5x+ faster than leading speed-optimized LLMs like Claude 4.5 Haiku and GPT 5 Mini, at a fraction of the cost. Mercury 2 supports tunable reasoning levels, 128K context, native tool use, and schema-aligned JSON output. Built for coding workflows where latency compounds, real-time voice/search, and agent loops. OpenAI API compatible. Read more in the blog post.
/ 1M tokens
/ 1M tokens
tokens
Limits
Context
128,000
tokens
Max output
50,000
39% of the context window
Model facts
Author
Inception
Tokenizer
Other
Modality
Text -> Text
Created
Mar 4, 2026
Default generation parameters
temperature
0.75
Reasoning
Publication status
Modalities
Generation controls
Capability scores
Better than 16% of models compared
Better than 27% of models compared
Better than 25% of models compared
Creative tasks
Category performance
995 Elo
25.0% win
997 Elo
24.6% win
1011 Elo
22.5% win
1036 Elo
22.1% win
983 Elo
21.8% win
1023 Elo
21.4% win
997 Elo
19.6% win
988 Elo
19.2% win