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Inception: Mercury 2

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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 >1,000 tokens/sec on standard GPUs. Mercury 2 is 5x+ faster than leading speed-optimized LLMs like Claude 4.5 Haiku and GPT 5 Mini, at a fraction of the cost. Mercury 2 supports tunable reasoning levels, 128K context, native tool use, and schema-aligned JSON output. Built for coding workflows where latency compounds, real-time voice/search, and agent loops. OpenAI API compatible. Read more in the [blog post](https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2).

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Specifications

Context Window128K
Modalitiestext
Statusavailable
Categorythird-party
Model IDinception/mercury-2

Quick Start

TypeScript
import OpenAI from 'openai'

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY,
  baseURL: 'https://api.hanzo.ai/v1'
})

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'inception/mercury-2',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }]
})

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content)
Python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.hanzo.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="inception/mercury-2",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
cURL
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "inception/mercury-2",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'
Go
package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "os"

    "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)

func main() {
    cfg := openai.DefaultConfig(os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
    cfg.BaseURL = "https://api.hanzo.ai/v1"
    client := openai.NewClientWithConfig(cfg)

    resp, _ := client.CreateChatCompletion(context.Background(),
        openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
            Model: "inception/mercury-2",
            Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
                {Role: openai.ChatMessageRoleUser, Content: "Hello!"},
            },
        },
    )
    fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Message.Content)
}

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