Inception: 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...
Pricing
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Input
$0.040
USD / 1M input tokens
Output
$0.150
USD / 1M output tokens
Capabilities
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Text input Supported
Text output Supported
Vision Not listed
Tools Supported
Reasoning Supported
Structured outputs Supported
Audio Not listed
Image generation Not listed
Embeddings Not listed
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