Specification

Release date: 8 Sept 2026
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Context window: 260K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Max output: 65.5K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Modalities: text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Input modalities: text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Output modalities: text
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Openrouter id: inception/mercury-2.5
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Supported parameters: include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium

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Provenance

Attributed facts

12

Source tiers

T212

Freshest observation

31 min ago

Conflicts

None

Modalities

Modalities: text
Input: text
Output: text

Capabilities

Tool calling
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Structured output
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Reasoning
Yes
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2
Vision
Unavailable
Audio
Unavailable
Fine-tuning available
Unavailable

Context window: 260K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium
Max output: 65.5K tokens
Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 31 min agomedium

No benchmark results recorded

Results appear when a tier 1–3 source publishes them; we never copy scores without a source.

Current prices

Current prices per 1M tokens
Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cached in	Batch in / out	Context	Observed	Source
OpenRouterinception/mercury-2.5	$0.04	$0.15	$0.004	—	260K	31 min ago	openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider (USD). Rows are append-only: every change is kept in the history below.

Available through 1

OpenRouter

Price history

Input price · USD / 1M tokens

Output price · USD / 1M tokens

OpenRouter

No hardware estimate available

Estimates need a parameter count; this model has none recorded from a source.

No lineage recorded

Lineage comes from explicit `derived_from`, `fine_tuned_from`, `distilled_from` and `quantized_from` relations stated by sources.

Papers 0

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Repositories 0

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Claim history

12 claims · 12 properties

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
8 Sept 2026	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Context windowcontext_length1

Claim history for Context window
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
260K tokens	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
65.5K tokens	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Modalitiesmodalities1

Claim history for Modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input1

Claim history for Input modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
text	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
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...	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
inception/mercury-2.5	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
Yes	11 Sept 2026 21:10 UTC → current	current	OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2	medium	deterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

8 Sept 2026
New modelModelMercury 2.5Inception
New model: Mercury 2.5 (Inception)
openrouter
openrouter.ai
11 Sept 2026
Listed by providerModelMercury 2.5Inception
OpenRouter lists Mercury 2.5 at $0.04 in / $0.15 out per 1M tokens
openrouter
openrouter.ai

Full timeline →

Source documents
Source	Document	Type	Tier	Last observed	Snapshots
OpenRouter public model & pricing listing	openrouter.ai/api/v1/models	catalogue	T2· Quality secondary	31 min ago	1

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.