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Inception Labs

Mercury 2

Mercury 2 is Inception Labs' diffusion language model for fast reasoning, tool use, and multimodal chat.

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Model details

Model ID: mercury-2
Provider: Inception Labs
Modality: Text generation
Context window: 128,000 tokens
Input → output: Text / image → text
Released: Feb 24, 2026
Available on AshnaAI: Oct 3, 2026

Where this model fits

Best capabilities

Tool calling and agent workflows
Image and document understanding
Web-connected research tasks

Best for

General chat, writing, summarization, and structured extraction
Tasks where response quality matters more than minimum latency
Agents that need to call APIs or execute multi-step workflows

Not ideal for

Ultra-low-cost, latency-sensitive, high-volume classification
Very large documents that exceed its context window

Benchmarks

No comparable, source-verified benchmark has been published for this catalog entry yet.

Pricing (USD)

Limited-time 30% discount

Input / 1M tokens: $0.241$0.169
Output / 1M tokens: $1.45$1.01
Cached input / 1M: $0.024$0.017
Cache write / 1M: $0.301$0.211

Capabilities

reasoning—
toolsSupported
visionSupported
web searchSupported
filesSupported

Available regions

US East (N. Virginia)

us-east-1

Europe (Frankfurt)

eu-central-1

Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

ap-south-1

Multi-region and provider failover: Active

Requests automatically switch to another region or provider if one becomes unavailable.