Inception

Mercury 2.5

Released 2026-09-08

Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

You send / 1M

$0.040

tokens in

It replies / 1M

$0.150

tokens out

Memory

260K

tokens it can read at once

Typical request

$0.0001

1,000 words in, 400 out

Data privacy

No training or retention: Yes. At least one provider serves it with zero data retention.

ProviderYou send / 1MIt replies / 1MUptimePrivacy policy
Inception$0.040$0.150100%Read

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What it can do

  • Reads: text
  • Writes: text
  • Reasoning: Yes
  • Tool calling: Yes
  • Longest reply: 66K tokens
  • Repeated text is billed at $0.0040 per 1M (prompt caching)
  • Intelligence score: 12.3 / 100 (Artificial Analysis)

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