# Inception: Mercury 2

`inception/mercury-2` — **openrouter** · CHAT

> Inception: Mercury 2 (inception/mercury-2) is a chat model from openrouter with a 128K-token context window; proprietary (API-only); capabilities tools, reasoning; input text; output text.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | openrouter |
| Kind | CHAT |
| Context window | 128,000 tokens |
| Max output tokens | 50,000 tokens |
| Indicative price (US list) | $0.25 in / $0.75 out per 1M tokens (indicative US list — verify with vendor) |
| Cited capability index | intelligence index 13.8 · coding 31.1 (cited from Artificial Analysis — verify at the source) |
| Cited speed | 514.07 tokens/s · 7.46s to first token (cited from Artificial Analysis — verify at the source) |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Capabilities | tools, reasoning |
| Weights | Proprietary (API-only) |
| Release date | 2026-02-24 |
| Sources | artificial-analysis, committed, models-dev, openrouter-api |
| Last verified | 2026-11-05 |

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