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• [1]90%
  inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

  inceptionlabs.ai· Posted Oct 12, 2026· Starts Feb 24, 2026 ✓· 27% of score

  Inception's post "Introducing Mercury 2" says "Today, we're introducing Mercury 2" and The Decoder's^[5] report on the launch is dated Feb 24, 2026; OpenRouter^[4] lists the model from Mar 4, 2026, which is when the router added it.

• [2]80%
  Mercury 2 on Azure Foundry - Inception

  inceptionlabs.ai· Added Oct 12, 2026· 27% of score

  Inception's follow-up announcing Mercury 2 on Azure AI Foundry with the same 1,009 tokens per second, $0.25/$0.75 pricing, 128K context, tool calling and JSON-schema output.^[1]

• [3]80%
  Introducing Mercury 2.5 - Inception

  inceptionlabs.ai· Published Sep 8, 2026· 24% of score

  Inception's successor post: Mercury 2.5 adds a 40% intelligence increase over Mercury 2, a 260K context and $0.20 and $0.75 per 1 million tokens, and says thousands of developers and dozens of enterprises had built on Mercury 2.^[1]

• [4]80%
  Inception: Mercury 2 - OpenRouter

  openrouter.ai· Published Mar 4, 2026· 11% of score

  Router listing: first reasoning diffusion LLM, over 1,000 tokens per second, 128K context, $0.25 and $0.75 per 1 million tokens, released Mar 4, 2026.^[1]

• [5]85%
  Inception launches Mercury 2, the first diffusion-based language reasoning model - The Decoder

  the-decoder.com· Published Feb 24, 2026· 11% of score

  Independent launch-day report: 1,009 tokens per second with 1.7 seconds end-to-end latency against 14.4 seconds for Gemini 3 Flash and 23.4 seconds for Claude Haiku 4.5 with reasoning, pricing compared with both, and the $50 million raise last November.^[1]

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