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Mercury 2 – Benchmarks, Pricing & Intelligence Analysis

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...

Not available on LLMBase

Mercury 2 is not currently available in LLMBase Chat or the LLMBase Inference API. Benchmarks, pricing, and model details remain available for research and comparison.

Input Price$0.25/1M tokens
Output Price$0.75/1M tokens
Intelligence21.4
Coding31.1

Specifications

Technical details and pricing.

ProviderInception
Context Window128,000 tokens
Release DateFeb 20, 2026
ModalitiesText
CapabilitiesFunction Calling
AvailabilityNot available

Benchmarks

7 benchmark scores from Artificial Analysis.

GPQA77.0%
HLE15.5%
SciCode38.7%
LCR36.3%
IFBench69.8%
Tau270.8%
TerminalBench Hard26.5%

Composite Indices

Higher is better; speed and price are normalized

Standard Benchmarks

Only benchmarks with data are shown

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Mercury 2 good for?

Use Mercury 2 for everyday tasks like writing, summarizing, brainstorming, and getting clear explanations.

How much does Mercury 2 cost?

Pricing is based on usage. Current rates are $0.25/1M tokens for input and $0.75/1M tokens for output.

Is Mercury 2 available in LLMBase Chat yet?

Not yet on this page. We will add chat and inference actions automatically once an exact catalog entry exists for Mercury 2.

Does Mercury 2 support images or audio?

Mercury 2 focuses on text-based tasks.

Benchmarks and pricing use Artificial Analysis where available. Catalog specs are used as a fallback.