Mercury
Mercury is the first diffusion large language model (dLLM). Applying a breakthrough discrete diffusion approach, the model runs 5-10x faster than even speed optimized models like GPT-4.1 Nano and Claude 3.5 Haiku while matching their performance. Mercury's speed enables developers to provide responsive user experiences, including with voice agents, search interfaces, and chatbots. Read more in the [blog post] (https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury) here.
Specifications
Modalities
Supported Parameters
Max Output Tokens
16,384Data policy
- Prompt retention
- Unknown — we could not confirm
- Training
- Unknown — not declared
"Unknown" does not mean "safe". It means we could not confirm it.
Whether a provider trains on prompts is a declared value from our terms with them. Retention is determined from the upstream listing for every host this model can reach. Neither is guessed.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mercury available on FastMetal?
- Not at the moment. Mercury 2.5, from the same lab, is available on the FastMetal API today.
- What is the context window of Mercury?
- 128,000 tokens, shared between the prompt and the response.
- How does Mercury rank?
- #282 on the public arena's Overall board (ELO 1,306). Ranks move as the leaderboard is updated.
Leaderboard
Rankings: LMArena leaderboard dataset (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), CC BY 4.0, snapshot 2026-10-22; category names mapped and ratings rounded by FastMetal.