When was Mercury 2 released?

Mercury 2 was released on February 24, 2026 by Inception. This is the official Mercury 2 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Mercury 2 cost?

Mercury 2 pricing starts at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens via Inception, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Who created Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 was created by Inception.

What is the license for Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is Mercury 2 latency?

Mercury 2 p95 time to first token is 1.70 seconds via Inception over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

Where can I use Mercury 2?

Mercury 2 is available through 1 provider including Inception.

Where is the Mercury 2 paper or technical report?

Mercury 2 has a paper or technical report available at https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Mercury 2 against?

Common Mercury 2 comparisons include Mercury 2 vs Grok-3 Mini, Mercury 2 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Mercury 2 vs DeepSeek R1 Zero. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.

Mercury 2 Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Name: Mercury 2
Author: Inception

Mercury 2: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Mercury 2 is a language model from Inception, released in February 2026, with a 128K-token context window, and pricing from $0.250/M input and $0.750/M output.

Mercury 2 is the fastest reasoning LLM, built on diffusion-based language model (dLLM) architecture. Instead of generating text token-by-token, it refines multiple text blocks simultaneously, achieving over 1,000 tokens per second on

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Mercury 2 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Mercury 2 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Mercury 2 holds up as conversations get longer.

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Mercury 2 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Mercury 2 pricing

Providers

Mercury 2 starts at $0.250 per million input tokens and $0.750 per million output tokens via Inception.

Provider	Input $/M	Cached input $/M	Output $/M	Context in / out	TTFT p95 s	Output p5 c/s	Modalities in / out
Inception	$0.250	—	$0.750	128.0K/8.2K	1.70	—	/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Mercury 2 context window

Input and output token limits for Mercury 2, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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Mercury 2 latency

Mercury 2 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Mercury 2 examples

Recent arena outputs from Mercury 2, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Mercury 2 license

Mercury 2 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms.

License: Proprietary; Hosted access

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Mercury 2 resources

Official sources for Mercury 2: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Mercury 2 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Mercury 2 are Grok-3 Mini, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, DeepSeek R1 Zero. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.