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Mercury 2

Mercury · Version mercury-2

AvailableChecked Oct 23, 2026
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What to know about Mercury 2

AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026.

How can you access Mercury 2?

The catalog documents API access for Mercury 2. Source

As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. Source

For API use, confirm the exact model identifier, your account and region, and the endpoint's current limits in the linked documentation. An API listing does not establish access through a consumer subscription.

Which Mercury 2 does this page describe?

Mercury 2 is a model record from Inception in the Mercury family. Source

The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is mercury-2. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. Source

What are Mercury 2's context and output limits?

The documented context window is 128,000 tokens. Source

The documented maximum output is 50,000 tokens. Source

Context, input and output limits describe different constraints. Do not add the figures together to infer a larger window. Check the endpoint's accounting for conversation history, system instructions, tools, media and generated tokens; a documented maximum is not a guarantee of answer quality or a measured usable capacity.

What can Mercury 2 receive and generate?

Documented inputs: Text. Source

Documented outputs: Text. Source

Input support and output generation are separate capabilities. Reading an image does not establish image generation; a text output listing does not establish speech output. File sizes, formats and media limits depend on the documented implementation.

Keep the exact version in view

Other Mercury models from Inception.

These are separate records in the same publisher family. A shared family name does not establish equal capabilities or interchangeable licenses.

Mercury 2.5

API · 260,000 context tokens

Mercury 3

API · 1,000,000 context tokens

Mercury Voice

API · 128,000 context tokens

The documented record

Specifications, with their sources.

A missing value remains unknown. Input limits, output limits and the total context window are separate measurements.

Publisher
InceptionSource ↗
Family
MercurySource ↗
Version
mercury-2Source ↗
Availability
AvailableSource ↗
Access
APISource ↗
Inputs
TextSource ↗
Outputs
TextSource ↗
Context window
128,000 tokensSource ↗
Maximum input
Not documented
Maximum output
50,000 tokensSource ↗
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
Training-data cutoff
Not documented
Training completed
Not documented
Release date
Not documented
License
Not documented
Input price / 1M tokens
Not documented
Output price / 1M tokens
Not documented

Read this with the numbers.

Official API specification. K/M context shorthand is normalized in decimal; exact deployment limits may differ. Mercury Voice requires enterprise access. Mercury Edit 2 uses FIM/next-edit endpoints, not chat. Unknown cutoffs and release dates are not inferred.

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No additional identifier has been verified.

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Official sources.

  1. Mercury official model specifications ↗docs.inceptionlabs.ai

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Mercury 2

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Inputs
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Outputs
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Context window
128,000 tokensSource ↗
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented

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Coverage and last check

Independent editorial model library assembled from primary vendor documentation and official publisher model cards. This is a dated, auditable inventory of the sources reviewed, not a claim to every model worldwide. First-party language-model inventory for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini/Gemma, xAI, Meta and Reflection. Includes vendor-listed legacy/retired identities with explicit statuses; official pretrained and instruction-tuned checkpoints remain distinct. Excludes embeddings, moderation/guard models, image/audio/video-only generation, community fine-tunes, speculative draft helpers, format/runtime/quantization duplicates, and PaliGemma dataset-specific benchmark fine-tunes. Availability means documented vendor API or downloadable official weights, not guaranteed account eligibility. Unknown specifications and dates remain null. Rounded K/M limits preserve vendor granularity; exact integers are used only where documented. No OpenRouter facts are used. Primary-source inventory of language-capable models from Alibaba/Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, Z.ai, ByteDance Seed, Tencent, Baidu, Xiaomi, StepFun, 01.AI, Shanghai AI Laboratory, Baichuan and OpenBMB. Includes full reachable official public weight inventories plus documented hosted API models and explicit retirements. Embeddings, reward/classifier/router/tokenizer/draft-head components, standalone OCR/document converters and image/video/audio-only generators are excluded; multimodal language models retained. Official packaging variants are folded into aliases where a canonical listing was identifiable; remaining research/base/SFT variants retain exact identities. Not a guarantee every historical/private/regional model is available. Unknown specifications remain null; K/M API display quantities use decimal normalization where explicitly noted, rather than implying verified exact serving ceilings. Model-name dates and repository creation timestamps are never used as release/training dates. Open weights does not mean unrestricted or OSI-open-source licensing. Some model-card bodies were unreachable; their public inventory metadata is retained and disclosed. Official Mistral, Cohere, AI21, NVIDIA Nemotron, Microsoft Phi/MAI, Amazon Nova, IBM Granite, AllenAI OLMo/Molmo, TII Falcon, Nous Research, Arcee and Essential AI model inventory checked 2026-10-23. Includes base, instruction, reasoning, coding and text-producing multimodal models, including legacy API versions. Excludes embeddings/rerankers/reward and safety classifiers, image/audio/video-only generation, robotics-only models, duplicate quantization/runtime packages, adapters, intermediate checkpoint experiments, and third-party mirrors. Arcee coverage focuses on its named product families rather than exploratory merge repositories. Repository listing means listed, not independently verified API availability. K/M figures are nominal decimal normalizations when the source supplies shorthand; deployment-specific exact token limits may differ. Unverified values remain null. This is a source-backed inventory, not a complete claim-level independent editorial review. Supplemental official Liquid AI, Reka and Inception generative language catalog. Excludes media-only generators and decision/classification-only models. No assumed training dates.

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