Mercury 2
General purposeToolsInception · Released March 2026
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...
Facts and pricing
- Provider
- Inception
- Context window
- 128K tokens
- Input price
- 2.8 credits / 1M tokens ($0.25 raw)
- Output price
- 8.3 credits / 1M tokens ($0.75 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Credits are what Zeplik bills: 1 credit = $0.10, computed from the raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin. Raw prices shown per 1M tokens.
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What Mercury 2 is best for
- Balanced everyday work: writing, questions, brainstorming and summarization
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Frequently asked questions
- What is Mercury 2?
- Mercury 2 is an AI model by Inception. Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM). Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...
- How much does Mercury 2 cost on Zeplik?
- Input tokens cost 2.8 credits per million and output tokens 8.3 credits per million (1 credit = $0.10; the raw provider rates are $0.25 and $0.75 per million). New accounts start with free credits.
- How long can a conversation with Mercury 2 be?
- Mercury 2 has a 128K-token context window (128,000 tokens), which covers the conversation plus any documents you attach.
- Does Mercury 2 support images and tools?
- Mercury 2 is text-only and supports tool calling.
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