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Mercury 2.5

Inception

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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Updated 4 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Canonical model
Yesidentity confidence: highOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
Official checkpoints
None recordedofficial_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
Artifacts
None recordedSeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
Provider deployments
1
API aliases
inception/mercury-2.5Identifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
Folded evaluation variants
0Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.

Openness

Openness not classified yet — no sourced evidence to place this model in the ontology.

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 11 h agomedium

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 11 h agomedium

Capabilities

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

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 11 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 11 h agomedium

Providers & Pricing1

All offers in the price terminal →
Provider deployments, cheapest output first
ProviderContextInput / 1MCached inOutput / 1MStatusObservedSource
OpenRoutercheapest outputinception/mercury-2.5260Kout 65.5K$0.004active2 h agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Output price history of Mercury 2.5$0$0.05$0.10$0.15$0.20Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $0.15 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $0.1511 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Input price history of Mercury 2.5$0$0.01$0.02$0.03$0.04$0.05Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $0.04 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $0.0411 Sept 2026

Versions & Artifacts0

Version history

Context windowfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Max outputfirst observation only

11 Sept 2026current

Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.

Artifacts 0

No artifact (checkpoint, quantisation, conversion or packaging) points to this model yet.

Change history12

Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.

Viewing AI Atlas as of 12 Sept 2026 — attributes exactly as the atlas knew them on that day; later corrections are not shown.

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Attributes as of 12 Sept 2026 13 claims in force

Release date
8 Sept 2026
Context window
260K tokens
Max output
65.5K tokens
Modalities
text
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Openrouter id
inception/mercury-2.5
Openrouter listed at
8 Sept 2026
Reasoning
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Supported parameters
include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools
Tool calling
Yes
12 claims · 12 properties

Release daterelease_date1

Claim history for Release date
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
8 Sept 2026 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Context windowcontext_length1

Claim history for Context window
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
260K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Max outputmax_output_tokens1

Claim history for Max output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
65.5K tokens → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Modalitiesmodalities1

Claim history for Modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Input modalitiesmodalities_input1

Claim history for Input modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Output modalitiesmodalities_output1

Claim history for Output modalities
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
text → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Descriptiondescription1

Claim history for Description
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
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... → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Openrouter idopenrouter_id1

Claim history for Openrouter id
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
inception/mercury-2.5 → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Reasoningreasoning1

Claim history for Reasoning
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Structured outputstructured_output1

Claim history for Structured output
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Supported parameterssupported_parameters1

Claim history for Supported parameters
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

Tool callingtool_calling1

Claim history for Tool calling
ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
Yes → currentcurrentOpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2mediumdeterministic

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 →

Provenance

Attributed facts

13

Source tiers

T213

Freshest observation

4 h ago

Conflicts

None

Source documents 1

Source documents
SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary2 h ago7

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

Data quality (50/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →