About
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM).
Pricing
| Input | $0.35 | per 1M prompt tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $1.05 | per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included |
| Cached input | $0.03 | per 1M tokens read back from the prompt cache |
What a request costs
| Typical request | Each | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out | $0.0009 | $0.945 |
| Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out | $0.015 | $14.84 |
| Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out | $0.0083 | $8.26 |
At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.
Benchmarks
Head-to-head rankings
- #70ASCII artModel arenaElo 99725% wins
- #84SVGModel arenaElo 99625% wins
- #1133DModel arenaElo 98222% wins
- #113Data vizModel arenaElo 101123% wins
- #113UI componentsModel arenaElo 99620% wins
- #118CodeModel arenaElo 102321% wins
- #119Game devModel arenaElo 98819% wins
- #120WebsitesModel arenaElo 103722% wins
Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.
Call it from code
OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set
model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.
cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "inception/mercury-2",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }],
"reasoning": { "effort": "medium" }
}'Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="inception/mercury-2",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "inception/mercury-2",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);Parameters this model accepts
include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formatstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetools