The cheapos ClubInception: Mercury 2.5
inception/mercury-2.5
Price Published
- Input
- $0.04 per million tokens
- Output
- $0.15 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 260,000 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
- Listed since
- Sep 8, 2026
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Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
- Intelligence index
- 12.3
- Coding index
- Not reported
- Agentic index
- Not reported
Scores from Artificial Analysis, as distributed in the OpenRouter catalog. They measure test suites, not request reliability on real work.
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About this model OpenRouter description
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...
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Catalog data from the OpenRouter model catalog, retrieved Sep 29, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC. A listing isn't a live availability check.