Mercury 2.5 is Inception's language model with a 260K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.04 / 1M input and $0.15 / 1M output. A diffusion-based large language model that generates and refines multiple tokens in parallel rather than sequentially, enabling fast reasoning with tool-use support.
Specifications
Canonical IDinception-mercury-2-5
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorInceptionInception
Providers
Context Window260K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 15 days ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Inception logo
Inception
inception/mercury-2.5
$0.2$0.75$0.02
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
inception/mercury-2.5
$0.04$0.15$0.004
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
inception/mercury-2.5
$0.04$0.15$0.004

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Mercury 2.5260K$0.040$0.150Current
Mercury 2.5 Preview260KAvailable
Mercury 2128K$0.250$0.750Available
Mercury 2 Edit32K$0.250$0.750Available
Mercury Coder Small Beta32K$0.250$1.00Available
MercuryAvailable
Mercury CoderAvailable

Model IDs

inception-mercury-2-5
inception/mercury-2.5
openrouter/inception/mercury-2.5