Mercury 2
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 token
Models
Mercury 2
Added 10 July 2026
Overview
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 to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `inception/mercury-2`.
- openrouter ·
inception/mercury-2Docs
OpenRouter id: inception/mercury-2
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 10.8 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 31.1 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 1.6 index
- Design Arena 3d (other): 983 elo · #114
- Design Arena asciiart (other): 995 elo · #70
- Design Arena codecategories (other): 1022 elo · #119
- Design Arena dataviz (other): 1011 elo · #113
Notes
Mercury 2 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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