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Mercury


Mercury is Inception logoInception's language model. The first discrete diffusion large language model (dLLM) from Inception Labs, generating tokens in parallel for 5–10x faster inference than autoregressive models.
Spec
Canonical IDinception-mercury
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorInceptionInception
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
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OpenRouter
inception/mercury
$0.250$0.750$0.025

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Mercury 2128K$0.250$0.750Available
Mercury Coder Small Beta32K$0.250$1.00Available
MercuryCurrent
Mercury CoderAvailable

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