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Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview

inception/mercury-2.5-preview · InceptionUnmeasurable
Declared family
Unknown
Evidence confidence
Unknown
Declared tokenizer tag
Other
Entered catalogue
31 August 2026
Last tested
3 September 2026
Measurement
Unmeasurable: prompt caching corrupts its token accounting
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Withdrawn from the catalogue

First absent from the snapshot of 16 September 2026

Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview no longer appears in the OpenRouter catalogue. The record stays here because the measurements below were real when they were taken and this address has been published. A model leaving is the kind of change this product exists to notice, so it is kept rather than deleted.

Evidence stack

Signals of different kinds, weighed together
SignalResultReference
Tokenizer signatureNot measured
API surfaceIdentical contract to 1 other entryapi_20ca7341
Context and output260,000 context · 65,536 max outputdeclared
Reasoning contractOptional · efforts high, medium, low, none · default mediumdeclared
Serving providers observedInceptionmeasured 3 September 2026

Closest measured models

Agreement across the mutually clean test strings

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The measured fingerprint

Marginal prompt-token cost of each test string, grouped by script
All 50 rows, 25 excluded as corrupt

English and whitespace

en-prosex
en-long2
spaces-20x
spaces-60x
tabs-20x
newlines-20x
mixed-wsx

Digits

digits-9x
digits-12x
digits-3016
digits-sepx
float-long8

CJK

zh-commonx
zh-longx
zh-rare4
ja-kanax
ja-kanjix
kox

Other scripts

rux
arx
hex
hi6
thx
elx

Emoji

emoji-basicx
emoji-skin16
emoji-zwj-family4
emoji-zwj-x339
emoji-flags10
emoji-prof14

Rare Unicode

math15
boxdraw14
combiningx
cjk-ext-bx
surrogates26
zalgo22
rtl-mixx

Code

py-code11
py-indent4
json11
html2
regex29
camelx
snakex

Repetition and encodings

rare-word-x516
repeat-tok7
base6421
hex3
url5
uuid21

An x marks a row excluded as corrupt (caching or provider interference detected during measurement). Overhead subtracted: 11 prompt tokens.

Declared record

What the catalogue claims about this model

Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

Modalities
text->text
Declared tokenizer
Other
Prompt price
$0.04 / M tokens
Completion price
$0.15 / M tokens

Supported parameters

include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetools

defaults: {}

Catalogue entry

History

Every observation, kept as taken
  • 31 August 2026Enters the OpenRouter catalogue with no declared family.
  • 3 September 2026Fingerprinted in the YFarmX catalogue sweep · 25 of 50 strings measured clean.

Cite this page as the evidence record for Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview: the URL is stable, measurements are dated, and revisions append to the history above. Method: tokenizer fingerprinting, v1, 50 strings.