Mercury 2 API: Pricing and Specs

Mercury 2 API

Mercury 2 is a large language model by Inception, available on the Venice API as mercury-2. Requests are anonymized, so the provider never sees your identity.Mercury 2 is a diffusion-based reasoning LLM from Inception, delivering over 1,000 tokens per second — 5x faster than leading speed-optimized models — with strong reasoning, tool use, and structured output capabilities.

Mercury 2 API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`mercury-2`	Standard	Anonymized	$0.3125 / $0.9375 per 1M

Mercury 2 specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	Inception
Released	Feb 20, 2026
Privacy	Anonymized
Status	Stable
Context window	128K tokens
Max output	50K tokens
Reasoning effort	none, low, medium, high

How to use the Mercury 2 API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions with "model": "mercury-2" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mercury-2",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain TEE attestation in two sentences." }],
    "reasoning_effort": "high"
  }'

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